Automatic Classification of Emotions in Dreams Using Machine Learning and EEG Signals

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1 Faculty of Biomedical Engineering, Sahand University of Technology, Tabriz,, Iran

2 School of Engineering Science, College of Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

3 Biomedical Engineering Faculty, Sahand University of Technology, Tabriz, Iran

Abstract

Since the content of dreams can mirror an individual's mental state, recognizing emotions during sleep can reveal valuable information about the state of mind. This research suggests a new method for the automated classification of emotions during the state of sleep known as the rapid eye movement (REM) state. In the suggested method, in the preprocessing step, electroencephalogram (EEG) signals are filtered with a Butterworth bandpass filter and are then broken into 20-second windows. Each filtered EEG window is then decomposed into five intrinsic mode functions (IMFs) with the empirical mode decomposition algorithm. In the next step, the sample entropy feature is extracted from each IMF. The ReliefF algorithm is utilized to select the best subset of features, which are applied as an input to random forest, support vector machine, and K-nearest neighbor machine learning algorithms. Emotional states are classified in a three-class setting (positive, negative, and neutral) as well as in two binary classification scenarios: (1) positive versus negative, and (2) neutral versus a combination of positive and negative emotions. EEG signals from the publicly available dataset known as the DEED dataset are utilized to see brain activity patterns which are present in different states of emotions in dreams and to analyze the performance of the suggested method. The outcome reveals that the suggested method provides an accuracy of 93.74% in three-class classification and an accuracy of 97.45% in binary classification (emotions versus neutral), which indicates good performance in the classification of different states of dreams' emotions during sleep.

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Tabriz Journal of Electrical Engineering

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