MLP with Riemannian Covariance for Motor Imagery based EEG Analysis

Stroke is one of the leading causes of disability and incidence. For the treatment of prognosis of stroke patients, Motor imagery (MI) as a novel experimental paradigm, clinically it is effective because MI based Brain-Computer interface system can promote rehabilitation of stroke patients. There is being a hot and challenging topic to recognize multi-class motor imagery action classification accurately based on electroencephalograph (EEG) signals. In this work, we propose a novel framework named MRC-MLP. Multiple Riemannian covariance is used for EEG feature extraction. We make a multi-scale spectral division to filter EEG signals. They consist of different frequency bandwidths name sub-band. We concatenate and vectorize features extracted by Riemannian covariance on each sub-band. We design a fully connected MLP model with an improved loss function for motor imagery EEG classification. Furthermore, our proposed method MRC-MLP outperforms state-of-the-art methods and achieves approximately mean accuracy with 76%.