A Deep Learning based Optimization Model for Based Computer Interface of Wheelchair Directional Control
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An efficient recognition model is highly recommended while trying to analyze brain signal pattern for Motor Imagery (MI) signal. Therefore, this study aims to develop an optimized model based on a deep learning approach using Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLP) in order to help a large community of disability people by allowing them to control the wheelchair using their MI Brain signal. In this paper, dataset is used which is belong to BCI Competition dataset IV/2b and consists of two parts, each of them contains on 160 trails for a single subject. To preprocess the brain signal, Butterworth band pass filter used to remove unwanted signal (Alpha and Beta) and remain on the brain signal, then followed by feature extraction technique using Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT). After that, Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLP) classifier based training parameters utilized to optimize the performance of the proposed system through using grid search optimization to improve performance of distinguishing between the two directional wheelchair commands. Cross-validations with ten groups were adopted to boost the modeling accuracy with dataset of all subjects (1440 trials) and the single subjects (160 trails). The results of this study showed that the efficiency of the optimized MLP model increased by 3% over the large dataset compared to the non-optimized model. It can be concluded that the optimized model can be deployed in a MI based BCI wheelchair control system to help the disability people in their daily activities.
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