EEG Decoding Using CNN and LSTM Network

Decoding continuous three-dimensional (3D) motor imagery (MI) using non-invasive electroencephalography (EEG)-based brain--computer interfaces (BCIs) remains challenging due to signal variability and residual decoding errors. Deep learning architectures such as convolutional neural network--long short-term memory (CNN--LSTM) models can capture spatial and temporal dynamics for continuous kinematic decoding; however, systematic residual errors persist in predicted trajectories. We propose a two-stage decoding framework that applies reinforcement learning (RL) to perform residual kinematic correction on the outputs of a CNN--LSTM decoder (CNN--LSTM--RL). The RL agent is trained offline without direct EEG input and instead operates on predicted kinematic trajectories to optimize movement accuracy relative to target trajectories. Decoding performance was quantified using Pearson correlation coefficients ($r$) and Root Mean Square Errors (RMSE) along the $x, y$, and $z$ axes. Compared to CNN--LSTM applied alone, CNN--LSTM--RL improved the mean correlation from $0.5076$ to $0.7181$ ($p = 0.0005$) in 2D and from $0.6420$ to $0.7780$ ($p = 0.0059$) in VR, with relative gains of $41.5\%$ and $21.2\%$, respectively. Correspondingly, RMSE was reduced from $0.0890$ to $0.0532$ (2D, $p < 0.0001$) and from $0.0714$ to $0.0441$ (VR, $p < 0.0001$), representing relative reductions of $40.2\%$ and $38.2\%$. These findings demonstrate that this scalable framework enhances 3D BCI MI decoding by correcting kinematic errors via offline residual RL without extra neural data, advancing neurorehabilitation, prosthetics, and virtual interaction.

Motor imagery (MI)-based electroencephalography is widely used in non-invasive brain--computer interfaces (BCIs), but robust decoding remains challenging due to inter-subject variability and cross-session non-stationarity. This work proposes ATCNet-CIAM, an enhanced attention temporal convolutional network that integrates a lightweight channel-integrated attention module (CIAM) into the ATCNet framework to improve channel-spatial feature representation for MI decoding. The proposed model is evaluated on BCI Competition IV-2a, BCI Competition IV-2b, and the multi-day WBCIC-MI dataset under standard, within-session, and cross-session protocols. Experimental results show that ATCNet-CIAM achieves 86.32% accuracy on BCI IV-2a and 87.96% on BCI IV-2b under the standard protocol, while reaching 89.46% and 83.64% in the within-session WBCIC-MI on 2C and 3C, respectively. The proposed framework consistently improves classification stability and robustness under session-varying conditions, and ablation study confirms the complementary contribution of the proposed architectural components.

Motor imagery electroencephalography (MI-EEG) decoding offers a non-invasive route for post-stroke rehabilitation, but cross-patient use remains difficult because pathological neural reorganization changes task-related EEG dynamics, aperiodic activity, local excitability, cross-regional coordination, and trial-level brain-state context. This makes source-learned MI representations unreliable for unseen patients. To address this problem, we propose CFSPMNet, a cross-patient adaptation framework that models post-stroke MI-EEG as latent neural-state organization. CFSPMNet combines a Fourier-Reorganized State Mamba Network (FRSM) with Shared-Private Prototype Matching (SPPM). FRSM represents each trial as a latent physiological token sequence, reorganizes token states in the Fourier domain, and uses Fourier-derived trial context to guide Mamba state-space propagation. SPPM improves target pseudo-label updating by combining semantic confidence with shared-private physiological consistency, filtering confident but physiologically inconsistent target predictions. Leave-one-subject-out experiments on two stroke MI-EEG datasets show that CFSPMNet outperforms representative CNN-, Transformer-, Mamba-, and adaptation-based baselines, achieving average accuracies of 68.23% on XW-Stroke and 73.33% on 2019-Stroke, with gains of 5.63 and 8.25 percentage points over the strongest competitors. Ablation, sensitivity, feature-alignment, pseudo-label selection, and neurophysiological visualization analyses further support the roles of Fourier-domain token-state reorganization and calibrated pseudo-label updating. These results suggest that latent neural-state modeling can improve rehabilitation-oriented cross-patient BCI decoding. Code is available at https://github.com/wxk1224/CFSPMNet.