HADANet: hybrid attentive domain adaptation for cross-subject motor imagery EEG decoding
摘要
Motor imagery (MI) based brain–computer interfaces (BCIs) enable direct decoding of human motor intentions from neural activity. Electroencephalography (EEG) is widely used for MI decoding due to its non-invasive nature and high temporal resolution. However, large inter-subject variability in EEG signals leads to significant distribution discrepancies across subjects, which limits the generalization ability of existing decoding models. To address this issue, we propose a Hybrid Attentive Domain Adaptation Network (HADANet) for cross-subject motor imagery EEG decoding. The proposed framework employs a hierarchical convolutional feature extractor to capture complementary temporal and spectral characteristics of EEG signals. A hybrid attention mechanism further enhances discriminative spatial and channel-wise neural representations. In addition, a hybrid domain adaptation strategy combining adversarial learning and multi-kernel maximum mean discrepancy (MMD) alignment is introduced to reduce inter-subject distribution discrepancies and learn domain-invariant features. Experiments on the PhysioNet and Cho motor imagery datasets demonstrate that HADANet achieves competitive performance compared with several state-of-the-art methods, obtaining average accuracies of 82.85% and 85.87%, respectively. The results demonstrate that our framework effectively models motor imagery-related neural patterns and improves cross-subject generalization for practical BCI systems. the code in public https://github.com/curiouspeople/HADANet-.