arXiv Machine Learning

Evaluation Protocols and Cross-Subject Generalization in EEG Emotion Recognition

arXiv:2607. 27655v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reported accuracy in electroencephalography (EEG) emotion recognition depends on the complete evaluation procedure, not only the classifier.

arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 31

MSCGC-KAN: Multi-scale Causal Graph Convolution and KAN-inspired Analytic-basis Mapping for EEG Emotion Recognition

The paper introduces MSCGC-KAN, a new EEG emotion recognition approach that builds on a pre‑trained CBraMod backbone. It incorporates a structured task head featuring multi‑scale causal graph convolution and Kolmogorov–Arnold feature mapping to better capture multi‑scale emotional dynamics, inter‑channel connectivity, and nonlinear discriminative patterns. Experiments on FACED and SEED‑VII show significant performance gains over a linear baseline, achieving balanced accuracies of 60.66% and 33.27% respectively.

By Haoliang Gong, Qingshan She, Jiale Xu, Yunyuan Gao, Xugang Xi
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 22

Graph Learning for Cross-Subject, Cross-Population EEG Emotion Decoding and Model-Derived Spatial-Spectral Neural Signatures

The paper introduces EmoDiPyraTrans, a development-regularized differential graph Transformer designed to decode emotions from EEG signals across unseen individuals and populations while maintaining neural interpretability. Evaluations on five datasets (SEED, FACED, MAHNOB-HCI, DEAP, DREAMER) show high cross‑subject accuracies, with the model outperforming others in accuracy and positive‑class F1. Additional experiments demonstrate its ability to distinguish healthy from depressed participants and reveal spatial‑spectral neural signatures across frontal, temporal, central, and parietal regions with an alpha‑centered frequency preference.

By Dongyi He, Bin Jiang, Xiangkai Wang, Yun Zhao, Hongjie Yan, Wai Ting Siok, Nizhuan Wang
arXiv AI
Oct 5

Modeling Shared and Individual Structure for Cross-Subject Continuous Affect Regression from EEG-fNIRS

The paper presents a method for zero‑shot cross‑subject continuous affect regression using synchronized EEG‑fNIRS data. It decomposes affect trajectories into a shared component across subjects and an individual component derived from a label‑free alpha‑band cross‑channel synchrony marker, which rescales the shared trajectory for each test subject. Extensive validation—including leave‑one‑subject‑out correlation, functional‑form comparison, component ablation, and ceiling analysis—shows the approach achieves lower mean absolute errors than EEGNet and ASAC‑Net baselines on unseen subjects.

By Xuan Wang, Bing Wang, Shuai Chang, Hao Yuan, Xinbo Qi, Xinyue Zhang
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 2

OmniEEG-Bench: A Standardized Evaluation Benchmark for EEG Foundation Models

arXiv:2606. 00815v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Electroencephalography (EEG) supports a variety of brain-computer interface (BCI) tasks ranging from brain-state monitoring to human-LLM interactions.

By Ziling Lu, Zongsheng Li, Xinke Shen, Kexin Lou, Yingyue Xin, Xiaoqi Chen, Shinan Wang, Xiang Chen, Jiahao Fan, Chenyu Huang, Xin Xu, Zhoujie Hou, Chen Wei, Quanying Liu
arXiv AI
Oct 1

NeuroAtlas: Benchmarking Foundation Models for Clinical EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces

NeuroAtlas is the largest EEG benchmark to date, comprising 42 datasets and 260,000 hours of clinical EEG data across epilepsy, sleep medicine, brain age estimation, and brain‑computer interfaces. The study evaluates foundation models (FMs) for EEG against supervised baselines and generic time‑series FMs, finding that EEG‑specific FMs do not consistently outperform generic ones. It also demonstrates that standard machine‑learning metrics are inadequate for clinical relevance, advocating for task‑specific measures such as event‑level decision quality, hypnogram features, and brain‑age gap.

By Konstantinos Kontras, Trui Osselaer, Stylianos G. Mouslech, Angeliki-Ilektra Karaiskou, Guido Gagliardi, Thomas Strypsteen, Mohammad Hossein Badiei, Anku Rani, Maarten Vanmarcke, Miguel Bhagubai, Chanakya Ekbote, Jaedong Hwang, Christos Chatzichristos, Paul Pu Liang, Maarten De Vos
arXiv Machine Learning
Oct 12

Expert-level detection of low-voltage intervals in EEG as a robust biomarker of neonatal encephalopathy

The study introduces low‑voltage intervals (LVIs) as an amplitude‑ and duration‑based marker of neonatal EEG discontinuity and develops a ConvNeXt AI model that detects LVIs with expert‑level accuracy (AUC = 0.996, MCC = 0.926). In a cohort of 444 neonates, LVI percentage strongly correlates with EEG background grades, moderately with hypoxic‑ischaemic encephalopathy severity, and predicts seizures (AUC = 0.872). The results demonstrate that automated LVI quantification can serve as a robust biomarker for neonatal encephalopathy and seizure risk.

By John M. O'Toole, Sean R. Mathieson, Aurel Luca, Soraia Ventura, Sean Griffin, Geraldine B. Boylan, Robert Hogan