An evolutionary computation approach to cognitive states classification

The study of human brain functions has dramatically increased in recent years greatly due to the advent of functional magnetic resonance imaging. This paper presents a genetic programming approach to the problem of classifying the instantaneous cognitive state of a person based on his/her functional...

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Main Authors: Ramirez, R., Puiggros, M.
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Automatic testing
Blood flow
Brain
Communications technology
Evolutionary computation
Genetic programming
Humans
Magnetic noise
Magnetic resonance
Magnetic resonance imaging
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Summary:The study of human brain functions has dramatically increased in recent years greatly due to the advent of functional magnetic resonance imaging. This paper presents a genetic programming approach to the problem of classifying the instantaneous cognitive state of a person based on his/her functional magnetic resonance imaging data. The problem provides a very interesting case study of training classifiers with extremely high dimensional, sparse and noisy data. We apply genetic programming for both feature selection and classifier training. We present a successful case study of induced classifiers which accurately discriminate between cognitive states produced by listening to different auditory stimuli.
ISSN:1089-778X
1941-0026
DOI:10.1109/CEC.2007.4424690