Electroencephalography-Neurofeedback for Decoding and Modulating Human Emotions

Sara Mohammed Alzahmi, Bashayer Mohammed Alyammahi, Maitha Saeed Alyammahi, Mariam Rashed Alshamsi, Abdelkader Nasreddine Belkacem

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Abstract

Emotions play an important role in the health and well-being of humans. It is associated with feedback on human interaction with the surrounding environment, decision-making, and intelligence. Electroencephalography (EEG)-based brain-computer interfaces (BCI) technology can be used to sense the emotional state of humans. Therefore, this research introduces a non-invasive BCI system that provides solutions for psychiatrists to treat patients suffering from chronic sadness, depression, and anxiety without medications. Here, we propose an EEG-based neurofeedback system for decoding and modulating human emotions. This system decodes three emotions: happiness, sadness, and neutral emotions. From the decoded emotion, the system generates visual and auditory feedback to train the patient to regulate his/her brain activity to improve his/her mental health. We collected EEG data corresponding to each emotion from twelve female participants while watching multiple stimuli to develop a support vector machine (SVM) model with a radial basis function (RBF) kernel. The SVM model decoded the desired emotions with 92.3% accuracy. Then, EEG- Neurofeedback sessions decode the patient's emotions in real-time and generate visual and auditory feedback using the decoded emotions.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2022 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, BIBM 2022
EditorsDonald Adjeroh, Qi Long, Xinghua Shi, Fei Guo, Xiaohua Hu, Srinivas Aluru, Giri Narasimhan, Jianxin Wang, Mingon Kang, Ananda M. Mondal, Jin Liu
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages1988-1993
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781665468190
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2022
Event2022 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, BIBM 2022 - Las Vegas, United States
Duration: Dec 6 2022Dec 8 2022

Publication series

NameProceedings - 2022 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, BIBM 2022

Conference

Conference2022 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, BIBM 2022
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityLas Vegas
Period12/6/2212/8/22

Keywords

  • Brain-Computer Interface
  • Decode human emotions
  • Electroencephalography
  • Emotions
  • Modulate brain activity
  • Neurofeedback
  • Support Vector Machine (SVM)

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Psychiatry and Mental health
  • Information Systems and Management
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Medicine (miscellaneous)
  • Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
  • Health Informatics

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