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Main Authors: Xiang, Tian-Yu, Lei, Zheng, Zhou, Xiao-Hu, Xie, Xiao-Liang, Liu, Shi-Qi, Gui, Mei-Jiang, Ou, Hong-Yun, Huang, Xin-Zheng, Fu, Xin-Yi, Hou, Zeng-Guang
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Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14665
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author Xiang, Tian-Yu
Lei, Zheng
Zhou, Xiao-Hu
Xie, Xiao-Liang
Liu, Shi-Qi
Gui, Mei-Jiang
Ou, Hong-Yun
Huang, Xin-Zheng
Fu, Xin-Yi
Hou, Zeng-Guang
author_facet Xiang, Tian-Yu
Lei, Zheng
Zhou, Xiao-Hu
Xie, Xiao-Liang
Liu, Shi-Qi
Gui, Mei-Jiang
Ou, Hong-Yun
Huang, Xin-Zheng
Fu, Xin-Yi
Hou, Zeng-Guang
contents Electroencephalography (EEG) denoising methods typically depend on manual intervention or clean reference signals. This work introduces a task-oriented learning framework for automatic EEG denoising that uses only task labels without clean reference signals. EEG recordings are first decomposed into components based on blind source separation (BSS) techniques. Then, a learning-based selector assigns a retention probability to each component, and the denoised signal is reconstructed as a probability-weighted combination. A downstream proxy-task model evaluates the reconstructed signal, with its task loss supervising the selector in a collaborative optimization scheme that relies solely on task labels, eliminating the need for clean EEG references. Experiments on three datasets spanning two paradigms and multiple noise conditions show consistent gains in both task performance (accuracy: $2.56\%\uparrow$) and standard signal-quality metrics (signal-to-noise-ratio: $0.82$\,dB\,$\uparrow$). Further analyses demonstrate that the task-oriented learning framework is algorithm-agnostic, as it accommodates diverse decomposition techniques and network backbones for both the selector and the proxy model. These promising results indicate that the proposed task-oriented learning framework is a practical EEG denoising solution with potential implications for neuroscience research and EEG-based interaction systems.
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spellingShingle Task-Oriented Learning for Automatic EEG Denoising
Xiang, Tian-Yu
Lei, Zheng
Zhou, Xiao-Hu
Xie, Xiao-Liang
Liu, Shi-Qi
Gui, Mei-Jiang
Ou, Hong-Yun
Huang, Xin-Zheng
Fu, Xin-Yi
Hou, Zeng-Guang
Signal Processing
Electroencephalography (EEG) denoising methods typically depend on manual intervention or clean reference signals. This work introduces a task-oriented learning framework for automatic EEG denoising that uses only task labels without clean reference signals. EEG recordings are first decomposed into components based on blind source separation (BSS) techniques. Then, a learning-based selector assigns a retention probability to each component, and the denoised signal is reconstructed as a probability-weighted combination. A downstream proxy-task model evaluates the reconstructed signal, with its task loss supervising the selector in a collaborative optimization scheme that relies solely on task labels, eliminating the need for clean EEG references. Experiments on three datasets spanning two paradigms and multiple noise conditions show consistent gains in both task performance (accuracy: $2.56\%\uparrow$) and standard signal-quality metrics (signal-to-noise-ratio: $0.82$\,dB\,$\uparrow$). Further analyses demonstrate that the task-oriented learning framework is algorithm-agnostic, as it accommodates diverse decomposition techniques and network backbones for both the selector and the proxy model. These promising results indicate that the proposed task-oriented learning framework is a practical EEG denoising solution with potential implications for neuroscience research and EEG-based interaction systems.
title Task-Oriented Learning for Automatic EEG Denoising
topic Signal Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14665