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121 Citations
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27 June 2019

Various convolutional neural network (CNN)-based approaches have been recently proposed to improve the performance of motor imagery based-brain-computer interfaces (BCIs). However, the classification accuracy of CNNs is compromised when target data a...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,287 Views
16 Pages

14 March 2023

Multiclass motor imagery classification is essential for brain–computer interface systems such as prosthetic arms. The compressive sensing of EEG helps classify brain signals in real-time, which is necessary for a BCI system. However, compressi...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,140 Views
21 Pages

18 November 2021

Event-Related Desynchronization (ERD) or Electroencephalogram (EEG) wavelet is essential for motor imagery (MI) classification and BMI (Brain–Machine Interface) application. However, it is difficult to recognize multiple tasks for non-trained subject...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,599 Views
18 Pages

Classification of Motor Imagery Using Trial Extension in Spatial Domain with Rhythmic Components of EEG

  • Md. Khademul Islam Molla,
  • Sakir Ahamed,
  • Ahmed M. M. Almassri and
  • Hiroaki Wagatsuma

4 September 2023

Electrical activities of the human brain can be recorded with electroencephalography (EEG). To characterize motor imagery (MI) tasks for brain–computer interface (BCI) implementation is an easy and cost-effective tool. The MI task is represente...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,787 Views
16 Pages

2 June 2022

To apply EEG-based brain-machine interfaces during rehabilitation, separating various tasks during motor imagery (MI) and assimilating MI into motor execution (ME) are needed. Previous studies were focusing on classifying different MI tasks based on...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,250 Views
24 Pages

In the evolving field of Brain–Computer Interfaces (BCIs), accurately classifying Electroencephalography (EEG) signals for Motor Imagery (MI) tasks is challenging. We introduce the Correlation-Optimized Weighted Stacking Ensemble (COWSE) model,...

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  • Open Access
109 Citations
9,768 Views
20 Pages

Data Augmentation for Motor Imagery Signal Classification Based on a Hybrid Neural Network

  • Kai Zhang,
  • Guanghua Xu,
  • Zezhen Han,
  • Kaiquan Ma,
  • Xiaowei Zheng,
  • Longting Chen,
  • Nan Duan and
  • Sicong Zhang

11 August 2020

As an important paradigm of spontaneous brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), motor imagery (MI) has been widely used in the fields of neurological rehabilitation and robot control. Recently, researchers have proposed various methods for feature extracti...

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  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,620 Views
18 Pages

31 January 2023

EEG signals are interpreted, analyzed and classified by many researchers for use in brain–computer interfaces. Although there are many different EEG signal acquisition methods, one of the most interesting is motor imagery signals. Many differen...

  • Review
  • Open Access
35 Citations
7,537 Views
14 Pages

20 January 2023

Motor imagery (MI)-based brain–computer interfaces (BCI) have shown increased potential for the rehabilitation of stroke patients; nonetheless, their implementation in clinical practice has been restricted due to their low accuracy performance....

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,909 Views
18 Pages

12 August 2022

A novel whitening technique for motor imagery (MI) classification is proposed to reduce the accuracy variance of brain–computer interfaces (BCIs). This method is intended to improve the electroencephalogram eigenface analysis performance for th...

  • Review
  • Open Access
37 Citations
18,386 Views
30 Pages

20 February 2025

Transformers have rapidly influenced research across various domains. With their superior capability to encode long sequences, they have demonstrated exceptional performance, outperforming existing machine learning methods. There has been a rapid inc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
6,110 Views
16 Pages

Motor imagery (MI) electroencephalography (EEG) signals are widely used in BCI systems. MI tasks are performed by imagining doing a specific task and classifying MI through EEG signal processing. However, it is a challenging task to classify EEG sign...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,262 Views
26 Pages

28 November 2024

Decoding lower-limb motor imagery (MI) is highly important in brain–computer interfaces (BCIs) and rehabilitation engineering. However, it is challenging to classify lower-limb MI from electroencephalogram (EEG) signals, because lower-limb moti...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,220 Views
24 Pages

2 August 2024

Motor imagery brain–computer interface (MI-BCI) systems hold the potential to restore motor function and offer the opportunity for sustainable autonomous living for individuals with a range of motor and sensory impairments. The feature extracti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,297 Views
16 Pages

EEG Motor Imagery Classification: Tangent Space with Gate-Generated Weight Classifier

  • Sara Omari,
  • Adil Omari,
  • Fares Abu-Dakka and
  • Mohamed Abderrahim

Individuals grappling with severe central nervous system injuries often face significant challenges related to sensorimotor function and communication abilities. In response, brain–computer interface (BCI) technology has emerged as a promising...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,266 Views
17 Pages

Discriminative Frequencies and Temporal EEG Segmentation in the Motor Imagery Classification Approach

  • Dmitry Lazurenko,
  • Igor Shepelev,
  • Dmitry Shaposhnikov,
  • Anton Saevskiy and
  • Valery Kiroy

7 March 2022

A linear discriminant analysis transformation-based approach to the classification of three different motor imagery types for brain–computer interfaces was considered. The study involved 16 conditionally healthy subjects (12 men, 4 women, mean...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,732 Views
14 Pages

Independent Vector Analysis for Feature Extraction in Motor Imagery Classification

  • Caroline Pires Alavez Moraes,
  • Lucas Heck dos Santos,
  • Denis Gustavo Fantinato,
  • Aline Neves and
  • Tülay Adali

22 August 2024

Independent vector analysis (IVA) can be viewed as an extension of independent component analysis (ICA) to multiple datasets. It exploits the statistical dependency between different datasets through mutual information. In the context of motor imager...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
988 Views
31 Pages

27 August 2025

Motor imagery (MI) is a widely used paradigm in brain–computer interface (BCI) systems, with applications in rehabilitation and neuroscience. In this study, magnetoencephalography (MEG) signals were employed to analyze MI and other mental image...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,187 Views
20 Pages

CLTNet: A Hybrid Deep Learning Model for Motor Imagery Classification

  • He Gu,
  • Tingwei Chen,
  • Xiao Ma,
  • Mengyuan Zhang,
  • Yan Sun and
  • Jian Zhao

27 January 2025

Background: Brain–computer interface (BCI) technology opens up new avenues for human–machine interaction and rehabilitation by connecting the brain to machines. Electroencephalography (EEG)-based motor imagery (MI) classification is a key...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,656 Views
18 Pages

Motor Imagery EEG Signal Classification Using Distinctive Feature Fusion with Adaptive Structural LASSO

  • Weihai Huang,
  • Xinyue Liu,
  • Weize Yang,
  • Yihua Li,
  • Qiyan Sun and
  • Xiangzeng Kong

9 June 2024

A motor imagery brain–computer interface connects the human brain and computers via electroencephalography (EEG). However, individual differences in the frequency ranges of brain activity during motor imagery tasks pose a challenge, limiting th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
56 Citations
6,418 Views
21 Pages

3 January 2022

Automatic high-level feature extraction has become a possibility with the advancement of deep learning, and it has been used to optimize efficiency. Recently, classification methods for Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)-based electroencephalography...

  • Article
  • Open Access
55 Citations
10,570 Views
18 Pages

Monte Carlo Dropout for Uncertainty Estimation and Motor Imagery Classification

  • Daily Milanés-Hermosilla,
  • Rafael Trujillo Codorniú,
  • René López-Baracaldo,
  • Roberto Sagaró-Zamora,
  • Denis Delisle-Rodriguez,
  • John Jairo Villarejo-Mayor and
  • José Ricardo Núñez-Álvarez

30 October 2021

Motor Imagery (MI)-based Brain–Computer Interfaces (BCIs) have been widely used as an alternative communication channel to patients with severe motor disabilities, achieving high classification accuracy through machine learning techniques. Recently,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
4,680 Views
23 Pages

6 June 2022

This article is a continuation and extension of research on a new approach to the classification and recognition of EEG signals. Their goal is to control the mobile robot through mental commands, using a measuring set such as Emotiv Epoc Flex Gel. Th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
972 Views
21 Pages

Motor Imagery Acquisition Paradigms: In the Search to Improve Classification Accuracy

  • David Reyes,
  • Sebastian Sieghartsleitner,
  • Humberto Loaiza and
  • Christoph Guger

7 October 2025

In recent years, advances in medicine have been evident thanks to technological growth and interdisciplinary research, which has allowed the integration of knowledge, for example, of engineering into medical fields. This integration has generated dev...

  • Article
  • Open Access
84 Citations
7,730 Views
13 Pages

11 April 2019

Single-trial motor imagery classification is a crucial aspect of brain–computer applications. Therefore, it is necessary to extract and discriminate signal features involving motor imagery movements. Riemannian geometry-based feature extraction...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,578 Views
21 Pages

A Novel Deep Learning Model for Motor Imagery Classification in Brain–Computer Interfaces

  • Wenhui Chen,
  • Shunwu Xu,
  • Qingqing Hu,
  • Yiran Peng,
  • Hong Zhang,
  • Jian Zhang and
  • Zhaowen Chen

Recent advancements in decoding electroencephalogram (EEG) signals for motor imagery tasks have shown significant potential. However, the intricate time–frequency dynamics and inter-channel redundancy of EEG signals remain key challenges, often...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,693 Views
18 Pages

Classification of Different Motor Imagery Tasks with the Same Limb Using Electroencephalographic Signals

  • Eric Kauati-Saito,
  • André da Silva Pereira,
  • Ana Paula Fontana,
  • Antonio Mauricio Ferreira Leite Miranda de Sá,
  • Juliana Guimarães Martins Soares and
  • Carlos Julio Tierra-Criollo

26 August 2025

Stroke is a neurological condition that often results in long-term motor deficits. Given the high prevalence of motor impairments worldwide, there is a critical need to explore innovative neurorehabilitation strategies that aim to enhance the quality...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,842 Views
18 Pages

Adaptive Time–Frequency Segment Optimization for Motor Imagery Classification

  • Junjie Huang,
  • Guorui Li,
  • Qian Zhang,
  • Qingmin Yu and
  • Ting Li

5 March 2024

Motor imagery (MI)-based brain–computer interface (BCI) has emerged as a crucial method for rehabilitating stroke patients. However, the variability in the time–frequency distribution of MI-electroencephalography (EEG) among individuals l...

  • Article
  • Open Access
73 Citations
10,865 Views
9 Pages

5 September 2020

Brain–computer interfaces (BCIs) can help people with limited motor abilities to interact with their environment without external assistance. A major challenge in electroencephalogram (EEG)-based BCI development and research is the cross-subjec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
205 Citations
15,904 Views
16 Pages

EEG Classification of Motor Imagery Using a Novel Deep Learning Framework

  • Mengxi Dai,
  • Dezhi Zheng,
  • Rui Na,
  • Shuai Wang and
  • Shuailei Zhang

29 January 2019

Successful applications of brain-computer interface (BCI) approaches to motor imagery (MI) are still limited. In this paper, we propose a classification framework for MI electroencephalogram (EEG) signals that combines a convolutional neural network...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,030 Views
21 Pages

Motor Imagery Classification Based on EEG Sensing with Visual and Vibrotactile Guidance

  • Luka Batistić,
  • Diego Sušanj,
  • Domagoj Pinčić and
  • Sandi Ljubic

25 May 2023

Motor imagery (MI) is a technique of imagining the performance of a motor task without actually using the muscles. When employed in a brain–computer interface (BCI) supported by electroencephalographic (EEG) sensors, it can be used as a success...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,214 Views
17 Pages

Motor Imagery Classification Using Effective Channel Selection of Multichannel EEG

  • Abdullah Al Shiam,
  • Kazi Mahmudul Hassan,
  • Md. Rabiul Islam,
  • Ahmed M. M. Almassri,
  • Hiroaki Wagatsuma and
  • Md. Khademul Islam Molla

Electroencephalography (EEG) is effectively employed to describe cognitive patterns corresponding to different tasks of motor functions for brain–computer interface (BCI) implementation. Explicit information processing is necessary to reduce th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
74 Citations
7,169 Views
15 Pages

8 November 2017

Motor Imagery (MI) electroencephalography (EEG) is widely studied for its non-invasiveness, easy availability, portability, and high temporal resolution. As for MI EEG signal processing, the high dimensions of features represent a research challenge....

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,396 Views
21 Pages

Electroencephalography Signal Analysis for Human Activities Classification: A Solution Based on Machine Learning and Motor Imagery

  • Tarciana C. de Brito Guerra,
  • Taline Nóbrega,
  • Edgard Morya,
  • Allan de M. Martins and
  • Vicente A. de Sousa

26 April 2023

Electroencephalography (EEG) is a fundamental tool for understanding the brain’s electrical activity related to human motor activities. Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) uses such electrical activity to develop assistive technologies, especially t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
4,819 Views
15 Pages

Motor Imagery Classification Based on a Recurrent-Convolutional Architecture to Control a Hexapod Robot

  • Tat’y Mwata-Velu,
  • Jose Ruiz-Pinales,
  • Horacio Rostro-Gonzalez,
  • Mario Alberto Ibarra-Manzano,
  • Jorge Mario Cruz-Duarte and
  • Juan Gabriel Avina-Cervantes

12 March 2021

Advances in the field of Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs) aim, among other applications, to improve the movement capacities of people suffering from the loss of motor skills. The main challenge in this area is to achieve real-time and accurate bio-si...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,287 Views
19 Pages

Brain–computer interfaces, where motor imagery electroencephalography (EEG) signals are transformed into control commands, offer a promising solution for enhancing the standard of living for disabled individuals. However, the performance of EEG...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,267 Views
10 Pages

10 June 2022

For the successful application of brain-computer interface (BCI) systems, accurate recognition of electroencephalography (EEG) signals is one of the core issues. To solve the differences in individual EEG signals and the problem of less EEG data in c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
6,409 Views
25 Pages

EEG Signal Prediction for Motor Imagery Classification in Brain–Computer Interfaces

  • Óscar Wladimir Gómez-Morales,
  • Diego Fabian Collazos-Huertas,
  • Andrés Marino Álvarez-Meza and
  • Cesar German Castellanos-Dominguez

3 April 2025

Brain–computer interfaces (BCIs) based on motor imagery (MI) generally require EEG signals recorded from a large number of electrodes distributed across the cranial surface to achieve accurate MI classification. Not only does this entail long p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,590 Views
19 Pages

25 February 2025

Brain–computer interfaces (BCIs) based on electroencephalography (EEG) enable neural activity interpretation for device control, with motor imagery (MI) serving as a key paradigm for decoding imagined movements. Efficient feature extraction fro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,155 Views
17 Pages

Robust Motor Imagery Tasks Classification Approach Using Bayesian Neural Network

  • Daily Milanés-Hermosilla,
  • Rafael Trujillo-Codorniú,
  • Saddid Lamar-Carbonell,
  • Roberto Sagaró-Zamora,
  • Jorge Jadid Tamayo-Pacheco,
  • John Jairo Villarejo-Mayor and
  • Denis Delisle-Rodriguez

8 January 2023

The development of Brain–Computer Interfaces based on Motor Imagery (MI) tasks is a relevant research topic worldwide. The design of accurate and reliable BCI systems remains a challenge, mainly in terms of increasing performance and usability....

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,741 Views
20 Pages

25 May 2023

The use of Riemannian geometry decoding algorithms in classifying electroencephalography-based motor-imagery brain–computer interfaces (BCIs) trials is relatively new and promises to outperform the current state-of-the-art methods by overcoming...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,755 Views
32 Pages

Transforming Motor Imagery Analysis: A Novel EEG Classification Framework Using AtSiftNet Method

  • Haiqin Xu,
  • Waseem Haider,
  • Muhammad Zulkifal Aziz,
  • Youchao Sun and
  • Xiaojun Yu

7 October 2024

This paper presents an innovative approach for the Feature Extraction method using Self-Attention, incorporating various Feature Selection techniques known as the AtSiftNet method to enhance the classification performance of motor imaginary activitie...

  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
6,082 Views
13 Pages

7 July 2021

In recent years, more and more frameworks have been applied to brain-computer interface technology, and electroencephalogram-based motor imagery (MI-EEG) is developing rapidly. However, it is still a challenge to improve the accuracy of MI-EEG classi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
100 Citations
8,264 Views
16 Pages

Electroencephalography-based motor imagery (EEG-MI) classification is a critical component of the brain-computer interface (BCI), which enables people with physical limitations to communicate with the outside world via assistive technology. Regrettab...

  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
4,334 Views
11 Pages

27 September 2020

Motor imagery (MI) from human brain signals can diagnose or aid specific physical activities for rehabilitation, recreation, device control, and technology assistance. It is a dynamic state in learning and practicing movement tracking when a person m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,224 Views
22 Pages

13 January 2025

Enhancing motor disability assessment and its imagery classification is a significant concern in contemporary medical practice, necessitating reliable solutions to improve patient outcomes. One promising avenue is the use of brain–computer inte...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,319 Views
20 Pages

Motor Imagery Multi-Tasks Classification for BCIs Using the NVIDIA Jetson TX2 Board and the EEGNet Network

  • Tat’y Mwata-Velu,
  • Edson Niyonsaba-Sebigunda,
  • Juan Gabriel Avina-Cervantes,
  • Jose Ruiz-Pinales,
  • Narcisse Velu-A-Gulenga and
  • Adán Antonio Alonso-Ramírez

21 April 2023

Nowadays, Brain–Computer Interfaces (BCIs) still captivate large interest because of multiple advantages offered in numerous domains, explicitly assisting people with motor disabilities in communicating with the surrounding environment. However...

  • Article
  • Open Access
61 Citations
9,739 Views
19 Pages

Three-Class EEG-Based Motor Imagery Classification Using Phase-Space Reconstruction Technique

  • Ridha Djemal,
  • Ayad G. Bazyed,
  • Kais Belwafi,
  • Sofien Gannouni and
  • Walid Kaaniche

Over the last few decades, brain signals have been significantly exploited for brain-computer interface (BCI) applications. In this paper, we study the extraction of features using event-related desynchronization/synchronization techniques to improve...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,308 Views
22 Pages

Background: Decoding motor intentions from electroencephalogram (EEG) signals is a critical component of motor imagery-based brain–computer interface (MI–BCIs). In traditional EEG signal classification, effectively utilizing the valuable...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,372 Views
26 Pages

A Multi-Branch Network for Integrating Spatial, Spectral, and Temporal Features in Motor Imagery EEG Classification

  • Xiaoqin Lian,
  • Chunquan Liu,
  • Chao Gao,
  • Ziqian Deng,
  • Wenyang Guan and
  • Yonggang Gong

18 August 2025

Background: Efficient decoding of motor imagery (MI) electroencephalogram (EEG) signals is essential for the precise control and practical deployment of brain-computer interface (BCI) systems. Owing to the complex nonlinear characteristics of EEG sig...

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