EEG-Based Fatigue Detection Using PLI Brain Network and Relief Algorithm

EEG-based fatigue driving monitoring has important application value in road traffic safety, and the ultimate goal of the research is the development and use of wearable devices, and too many EEG channels in practical application scenarios is detrimental to device portability, and it will lead to problems such as large amount of data, complex calculation and long processing time, so it is especially important to study how to select the EEG channels highly correlated with fatigue. In this paper, a PLI-Relief-based channel selection algorithm by combining the PLI functional connectivity and the weighting idea of Relief algorithm is proposed, and it is applied to the channel selection of fatigue driving EEG. First, the PLI functional connectivity matrix is constructed for the EEG signals after preprocessing, and the binarized PLI matrix is mapped into a brain functional network, and the prime channels are selected by the degree property of the brain network. Then, the power spectral density features are extracted from the EEG signals of the prime channels, and the weights of each prime channel are obtained using the relief algorithm, then the number and the names of optimal channels are determined according to the recognition accuracy of different channel combinations. The proposed method was validated on the publicly available SEED-VIG dataset, and the data of the seven optimal channels is finally selected and obtains a classification accuracy of 81.25%. The framework proposed in this paper takes into account both the correlation between channels and the characteristics of the channel signals themselves in channel selection, which is a reference value for the development and application of wearable devices.