一款面向严重残疾人士的基于异步P300的脑机接口网络浏览器。
An Asynchronous P300-Based Brain-Computer Interface Web Browser for Severely Disabled People.
作者信息
Martinez-Cagigal Victor, Gomez-Pilar Javier, Alvarez Daniel, Hornero Roberto
出版信息
IEEE Trans Neural Syst Rehabil Eng. 2017 Aug;25(8):1332-1342. doi: 10.1109/TNSRE.2016.2623381. Epub 2016 Oct 31.
This paper presents an electroencephalographic (EEG) P300-based brain-computer interface (BCI) Internet browser. The system uses the "odd-ball" row-col paradigm for generating the P300 evoked potentials on the scalp of the user, which are immediately processed and translated into web browser commands. There were previous approaches for controlling a BCI web browser. However, to the best of our knowledge, none of them was focused on an assistive context, failing to test their applications with a suitable number of end users. In addition, all of them were synchronous applications, where it was necessary to introduce a "read-mode" command in order to avoid a continuous command selection. Thus, the aim of this study is twofold: 1) to test our web browser with a population of multiple sclerosis (MS) patients in order to assess the usefulness of our proposal to meet their daily communication needs; and 2) to overcome the aforementioned limitation by adding a threshold that discerns between control and non-control states, allowing the user to calmly read the web page without undesirable selections. The browser was tested with sixteen MS patients and five healthy volunteers. Both quantitative and qualitative metrics were obtained. MS participants reached an average accuracy of 84.14%, whereas 95.75% was achieved by control subjects. Results show that MS patients can successfully control the BCI web browser, improving their personal autonomy.
本文介绍了一种基于脑电图(EEG)P300的脑机接口(BCI)互联网浏览器。该系统使用“奇球”行-列范式在用户头皮上生成P300诱发电位,这些电位会立即被处理并转换为网络浏览器命令。以前有控制BCI网络浏览器的方法。然而,据我们所知,它们都没有专注于辅助情境,也没有用适当数量的终端用户测试其应用。此外,它们都是同步应用,其中需要引入“读取模式”命令以避免连续的命令选择。因此,本研究的目的有两个:1)用多发性硬化症(MS)患者群体测试我们的网络浏览器,以评估我们的提议满足他们日常交流需求的有用性;2)通过添加一个区分控制和非控制状态的阈值来克服上述限制,允许用户平静地阅读网页而不会有意外选择。该浏览器在16名MS患者和5名健康志愿者身上进行了测试。获得了定量和定性指标。MS参与者的平均准确率达到84.14%,而对照组受试者的准确率为95.75%。结果表明,MS患者可以成功控制BCI网络浏览器,提高他们的个人自主性。