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The common spatial pattern (CSP) algorithm is efficient and accurate for channels selection and features extraction for electroencephalogram (EEG) signals classification. The CSP algorithm is usually applied on a subject-by-subject basis by measuring only intra-subject variations for selecting the most significant channels; we refer to this algorithm as CSP-based customized channels selection (CSP-CC). In practice, deploying the CSP-CC algorithm requires to set up a customized EEG device for each subject separately, which can be very costly. In this paper, we propose a new algorithm, called CSP-based unified channels (CSP-UC), for overcoming the aforementioned difficulties. The aim of the proposed algorithm is to extract unified channels that are valid for any subject; hence, one EEG device can be deployed for all subjects. Moreover, a methodology for developing both binary-class and ternary-class EEG signals classification models using either customized or unified channels is introduced. This methodology is applicable for both subject-by-subject and cross-subjects basis. In ternary-class classification models, the traditional “Max_Vote” method, used for voting the predicted class labels, has been modified to a more accurate method called “Max_Vote_then_Max_Probability.” On a subject-by-subject basis, the experimental results on EEG-based driver’s fatigue dataset have shown that the accuracy of the classification models that are based on the proposed CSP-UC algorithm is slightly lower than that of those based on the CSP-CC algorithm. Nevertheless, the former algorithm is more practical and cost-effective than the latter. But in cross-subjects, the classification models based on the CSP-UC algorithm outperform those based on the CSP-CC algorithm in both accuracy and the number of used channels.

















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We applied the classification model on \(MIC=2,\ 3,\ 4,\ ... \), the best accuracy achieved when \(MIC=4\). This is the reason for choosing \(MIC=4\).
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This work was supported by the National Key R &D Program of China with grant no. 2017YFE0118200, NSFC with grant no. 62076083, Fundamental Research Funds for the Provincial Universities of Zhejiang (K209907299001-008), and Key Laboratory of Brain Machine Collaborative Intelligence of Zhejiang Province (2020E10010). The authors specially thank Industrial Neuroscience Lab of University of Rome “La Sapienza” for the support.
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This work was supported by the National Key \( R \& D\) Program of China with grant no. 2017YFE0118200, also supported by NSFC with grant no. 62076083.
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Zeng, H., Zakaria, W. A new common spatial pattern-based unified channels algorithm for driver’s fatigue EEG signals classification. Neural Comput & Applic 35, 1423–1445 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00521-022-07833-x
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