PlugSelect: Pruning Channels with Plug-and-Play Flexibility for Electroencephalography-based Brain Computer Interface
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| author | Yuan, Xue Shi, Keren Jiang, Ning He, Jiayuan |
| author_facet | Yuan, Xue Shi, Keren Jiang, Ning He, Jiayuan |
| contents | Automatic minimization and optimization of the number of the electrodes is essential for the practical application of electroencephalography (EEG)-based brain computer interface (BCI). Previous methods typically require additional training costs or rely on prior knowledge assumptions. This study proposed a novel channel pruning model, plug-and-select (PlugSelect), applicable across a broad range of BCI paradigms with no additional training cost and plug-and-play functionality. It integrates gradients along the input path to globally infer the causal relationships between input channels and outputs, and ranks the contribution sequences to identify the most highly attributed channels. The results showed that for three BCI paradigms, i.e., auditory attention decoding (AAD), motor imagery (MI), affective computation (AC), PlugSelect could reduce the number of channels by at least half while effectively maintaining decoding performance and improving efficiency. The outcome benefits the design of wearable EEG-based devices, facilitating the practical application of BCI technology. |
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| spellingShingle | PlugSelect: Pruning Channels with Plug-and-Play Flexibility for Electroencephalography-based Brain Computer Interface Yuan, Xue Shi, Keren Jiang, Ning He, Jiayuan Human-Computer Interaction Automatic minimization and optimization of the number of the electrodes is essential for the practical application of electroencephalography (EEG)-based brain computer interface (BCI). Previous methods typically require additional training costs or rely on prior knowledge assumptions. This study proposed a novel channel pruning model, plug-and-select (PlugSelect), applicable across a broad range of BCI paradigms with no additional training cost and plug-and-play functionality. It integrates gradients along the input path to globally infer the causal relationships between input channels and outputs, and ranks the contribution sequences to identify the most highly attributed channels. The results showed that for three BCI paradigms, i.e., auditory attention decoding (AAD), motor imagery (MI), affective computation (AC), PlugSelect could reduce the number of channels by at least half while effectively maintaining decoding performance and improving efficiency. The outcome benefits the design of wearable EEG-based devices, facilitating the practical application of BCI technology. |
| title | PlugSelect: Pruning Channels with Plug-and-Play Flexibility for Electroencephalography-based Brain Computer Interface |
| topic | Human-Computer Interaction |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.08486 |