Brain-computer interfaces (BCI) harnessing Steady State Visual Evoked Potentials (SSVEP) manipulate the frequency and phase of visual stimuli to generate predictable oscillations in neural activity. For BCI spellers, oscillations are matched with alphanumeric characters allowing users to select target numbers and letters. Advances in BCI spellers can, in part, be accredited to subject-specific optimization, including; 1) custom electrode arrangements, 2) filter sub-band assessments and 3) stimulus parameter tuning. Here we apply deep convolutional neural networks (DCNN) demonstrating cross-subject functionality for the classification of frequency and phase encoded SSVEP. Electroencephalogram (EEG) data are collected and classified using the same parameters across subjects. Subjects fixate forty randomly cued flickering characters (5 × 8 keyboard array) during concurrent wet-EEG acquisition. These data are provided by an open source SSVEP dataset. Our proposed DCNN, PodNet, achieves 86% and 77% offline Accuracy of Classification acrosssubjects for two data capture periods, respectively, 6-seconds (information transfer rate=40bpm) and 2-seconds (information transfer rate= 101bpm). Subjects demonstrating sub-optimal (<70%) performance are classified to similar levels after a short subject-specific training period. PodNet outperforms filter-bank canonical correlation analysis (FBCCA) for a low volume (3channel) clinically feasible occipital electrode configuration. The networks defined in this study achieve functional performance for the largest number of SSVEP classes decoded via DCNN to date. Our results demonstrate PodNet achieves cross-subject, calibrationless classification and adaptability to sub-optimal subject data and low-volume EEG electrode arrangements.
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