A Novel Method Based on Empirical Mode Decomposition for P300-Based Detection of Deception

Conventional polygraphy has several alternatives and one of them is P300-based guilty knowledge test. The purpose of this paper is to apply a new method called empirical mode decomposition (EMD) to extract features from electroencephalogram (EEG) signal. EMD is an appropriate tool to deal with the nonlinear and nonstationary nature of EEG. In the previous studies on the same data set, some morphological, frequency, and wavelet features were extracted only from Pz channel, and used for the detection of guilty and innocent subjects. In this paper, an EMD-based feature extraction was done on EEG recorded signal. Features were extracted from all three recorded channels (Pz, Cz, and Fz) for synergistic incorporation of channel information. Finally, a genetic algorithm was utilized as a tool for efficient feature selection and overcoming the challenge of input space dimension increase. The classification accuracy of guilty and innocent subjects was 92.73%, which was better than other previously used methods.