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Main Authors: Sarasa, Guillermo, Granados, Ana, Rodríguez, Francisco B
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.00220
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author Sarasa, Guillermo
Granados, Ana
Rodríguez, Francisco B
author_facet Sarasa, Guillermo
Granados, Ana
Rodríguez, Francisco B
contents P300 is an Event-Related Potential widely used in Brain-Computer Interfaces, but its detection is challenging due to inter-subject and temporal variability. This work introduces a clustering methodology based on Normalized Compression Distance (NCD) to extract the P300 structure, ensuring robustness against variability. We propose a novel signal-to-ASCII transformation to generate compression-friendly objects, which are then clustered using a hierarchical tree-based method and a multidimensional projection approach. Experimental results on two datasets demonstrate the method's ability to reveal relevant P300 structures, showing clustering performance comparable to state-of-the-art approaches. Furthermore, analysis at the electrode level suggests that the method could assist in electrode selection for P300 detection. This compression-driven clustering methodology offers a complementary tool for EEG analysis and P300 identification.
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spellingShingle Algorithmic Clustering based on String Compression to Extract P300 Structure in EEG Signals
Sarasa, Guillermo
Granados, Ana
Rodríguez, Francisco B
Machine Learning
Information Theory
Signal Processing
P300 is an Event-Related Potential widely used in Brain-Computer Interfaces, but its detection is challenging due to inter-subject and temporal variability. This work introduces a clustering methodology based on Normalized Compression Distance (NCD) to extract the P300 structure, ensuring robustness against variability. We propose a novel signal-to-ASCII transformation to generate compression-friendly objects, which are then clustered using a hierarchical tree-based method and a multidimensional projection approach. Experimental results on two datasets demonstrate the method's ability to reveal relevant P300 structures, showing clustering performance comparable to state-of-the-art approaches. Furthermore, analysis at the electrode level suggests that the method could assist in electrode selection for P300 detection. This compression-driven clustering methodology offers a complementary tool for EEG analysis and P300 identification.
title Algorithmic Clustering based on String Compression to Extract P300 Structure in EEG Signals
topic Machine Learning
Information Theory
Signal Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.00220