Advances in Brain–Computer Interfaces

Dear Colleagues,

Brain–computer interface (BCI) technology has been introduced to improve the quality of life for people with disabilities or difficulties in their daily lives. BCI applications such as driver assistants, sleep identification for drivers, and controlling a bionic hand/ankle–foot orthosis are widely used for healthy people as well as paralyzed patients. Research in the field mainly focuses on the development of mathematical calculations for brain-controlled vehicles, brain-controlled air vehicles, brain-controlled bionic hands, and brain-controlled foot-ankle braces using biosignals from an electroencephalogram (EEG), electrooculogram (EOG), electromyogram (EMG), and photoplethysmography (PPG).

The mathematical solutions are signal denoising (filtering), feature extraction, and machine learning algorithms. This collection of articles aims to highlight mathematical innovations as well as novel ideas for designing tasks to induce the brain to generate distinctive neuronal patterns. The final goal of this research topic is the discovery of new methods for BCI applications. We welcome manuscripts on the following subtopics:

• Decoding brain neuron activities by developing mathematical methods for identifying patterns within the EEG signals automatically;
• Identifying EEG patterns relative to human actions and decisions automatically;
• Analyzing the patterns generated in a designed task to determine which method is more beneficial, e.g., wavelet, chaotic methods, common spatial patterns, or reinforcing methods;
• Developing classifiers to automate identification procedures.

Dr. Amin Hekmatmanesh
Guest Editor

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• biosignal processing
• pattern recognition
• machine learning
• brain–computer interface
• health monitoring systems