SSDLabeler: Realistic semi-synthetic data generation for multi-label artifact classification in EEG

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Main Authors: Akama, Taketo, Connelly, Akima, Minamikawa, Shun, Polouliakh, Natalia
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Published: 2025
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author Akama, Taketo
Connelly, Akima
Minamikawa, Shun
Polouliakh, Natalia
author_facet Akama, Taketo
Connelly, Akima
Minamikawa, Shun
Polouliakh, Natalia
contents EEG recordings are inherently contaminated by artifacts such as ocular, muscular, and environmental noise, which obscure neural activity and complicate preprocessing. Artifact classification offers advantages in stability and transparency, providing a viable alternative to ICA-based methods that enable flexible use alongside human inspections and across various applications. However, artifact classification is limited by its training data as it requires extensive manual labeling, which cannot fully cover the diversity of real-world EEG. Semi-synthetic data (SSD) methods have been proposed to address this limitation, but prior approaches typically injected single artifact types using ICA components or required separately recorded artifact signals, reducing both the realism of the generated data and the applicability of the method. To overcome these issues, we introduce SSDLabeler, a framework that generates realistic, annotated SSDs by decomposing real EEG with ICA, epoch-level artifact verification using RMS and PSD criteria, and reinjecting multiple artifact types into clean data. When applied to train a multi-label artifact classifier, it improved accuracy on raw EEG across diverse conditions compared to prior SSD and raw EEG training, establishing a scalable foundation for artifact handling that captures the co-occurrence and complexity of real EEG.
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spellingShingle SSDLabeler: Realistic semi-synthetic data generation for multi-label artifact classification in EEG
Akama, Taketo
Connelly, Akima
Minamikawa, Shun
Polouliakh, Natalia
Neurons and Cognition
Machine Learning
Signal Processing
EEG recordings are inherently contaminated by artifacts such as ocular, muscular, and environmental noise, which obscure neural activity and complicate preprocessing. Artifact classification offers advantages in stability and transparency, providing a viable alternative to ICA-based methods that enable flexible use alongside human inspections and across various applications. However, artifact classification is limited by its training data as it requires extensive manual labeling, which cannot fully cover the diversity of real-world EEG. Semi-synthetic data (SSD) methods have been proposed to address this limitation, but prior approaches typically injected single artifact types using ICA components or required separately recorded artifact signals, reducing both the realism of the generated data and the applicability of the method. To overcome these issues, we introduce SSDLabeler, a framework that generates realistic, annotated SSDs by decomposing real EEG with ICA, epoch-level artifact verification using RMS and PSD criteria, and reinjecting multiple artifact types into clean data. When applied to train a multi-label artifact classifier, it improved accuracy on raw EEG across diverse conditions compared to prior SSD and raw EEG training, establishing a scalable foundation for artifact handling that captures the co-occurrence and complexity of real EEG.
title SSDLabeler: Realistic semi-synthetic data generation for multi-label artifact classification in EEG
topic Neurons and Cognition
Machine Learning
Signal Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.05500