FingerFlex: Inferring Finger Trajectories from ECoG signals

23 Oct 2022  ·  Vladislav Lomtev, Alexander Kovalev, Alexey Timchenko ·

Motor brain-computer interface (BCI) development relies critically on neural time series decoding algorithms. Recent advances in deep learning architectures allow for automatic feature selection to approximate higher-order dependencies in data. This article presents the FingerFlex model - a convolutional encoder-decoder architecture adapted for finger movement regression on electrocorticographic (ECoG) brain data. State-of-the-art performance was achieved on a publicly available BCI competition IV dataset 4 with a correlation coefficient between true and predicted trajectories up to 0.74. The presented method provides the opportunity for developing fully-functional high-precision cortical motor brain-computer interfaces.

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Task Dataset Model Metric Name Metric Value Global Rank Result Benchmark
Brain Decoding BCI Competition IV: ECoG to Finger Movements FingerFlex Pearson Correlation 0.67 # 1
Brain Decoding Stanford ECoG library: ECoG to Finger Movements FingerFlex Pearson Correlation 0.49 # 1

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