WGAN-Powered Adversarial Feature Learning for Robust EEG Classification of Hand Finger Movements
摘要
Brain–computer interfaces (BCIs) have increasingly focused on decoding fine motor movements, particularly hand gestures, to enhance neurorehabilitation and assistive technologies. This study explores the neural representation of coordinated five-finger movements using an electroencephalography (EEG) dataset from four subjects. A multi-stage preprocessing pipeline was employed to improve EEG signal quality, incorporating moving average filtering, common average referencing, and band-pass filtering. This combination of techniques was selected as it effectively enhances signal quality and minimizes noise, leading to improved feature extraction performance. A Wasserstein Generative Adversarial Network (WGAN) was employed for feature extraction, utilizing a discriminator to generate highly discriminative neural features. These features were then classified using various machine learning models, with the Support Vector Machine (SVM) achieving an average classification accuracy of 95.98%, and an average F1-score of 96.00%. This highlights the effectiveness of adversarial feature learning in enhancing neural feature extraction for precise motor intention decoding. By demonstrating a high-accuracy, subject-specific approach to motor control, this study paves the way for incorporating BCIs into rehabilitation systems aimed at restoring fine finger movements in stroke patients.