Topological EEG Nonlinear Dynamics Analysis for Emotion Recognition

• Main Authors: He, Y. (Author), Li, A. (Author), Li, C. (Author), Li, H. (Author), Wang, L. (Author), Wu, X. (Author), Yan, Y. (Author), Zhang, Z. (Author)
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. 2022
• Subjects: affective computing; Affective Computing; Biomedical signal processing; biomedical signal processing.; Biomedical signal processing.; Biomedical signals processing; Brain modeling; Data analysis; Data handling; dynamical systems; Dynamical systems; Dynamics; EEG emotion recognition; Electroencephalography; Electrophysiology; Emotion recognition; Exploring the electroencephalography emotion recognition; Extraction; Feature extraction; Features extraction; Information analysis; Nonlinear analysis; Nonlinear dynamical systems; nonlinear dynamics; phase space reconstruction; Phase space reconstruction; Phase spaces; Point cloud compression; Point-clouds; Signal analysis; Space reconstruction; Speech recognition; Time series analysis; topological data analysis; Topological data analysis; Topology
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 Emotional recognition through exploring the electroencephalography (EEG) characteristics has been widely performed in recent studies. Nonlinear analysis and feature extraction methods for understanding the complex dynamical phenomena are associated with the EEG patterns of different emotions. The phase space reconstruction is a typical nonlinear technique to reveal the dynamics of the brain neural system. Recently, the topological data analysis (TDA) scheme has been used to explore the properties of space, which provides a powerful tool to think over the phase space. In this work, we proposed a topological EEG nonlinear dynamics analysis approach using the phase space reconstruction (PSR) technique to convert EEG time series into phase space, and the persistent homology tool explores the topological properties of the phase space. We perform the topological analysis of EEG signals in different rhythm bands to build emotion feature vectors, which shows high distinguishing ability. We evaluate the approach with two well-known benchmark datasets, the DEAP and DREAMER datasets. The recognition results achieved accuracies of 99.37% and 99.35% in arousal and valence classification tasks with DEAP, and 99.96%, 99.93%, and 99.95% in arousal, valence, and dominance classifications tasks with DREAMER, respectively. The performances are supposed to be outperformed current state-of-art approaches in DREAMER (improved by 1% to 10% depends on temporal length), while comparable to other related works evaluated in DEAP. The proposed work is the first investigation in the emotion recognition oriented EEG topological feature analysis, which brought a novel insight into the brain neural system nonlinear dynamics analysis and feature extraction. Author