Browsing by Author "Tulay, Emine Elif"

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Decoding Functional Brain Data for Emotion Recognition: A Machine Learning Approach
(Assoc Computing Machinery, 2024) Ballı, Tuğçe; Balli, Tugce; Management Information Systems
The identification of emotions is an open research area and has a potential leading role in the improvement of socio-emotional skills such as empathy, sensitivity, and emotion recognition in humans. The current study aimed at using Event Related Potential (ERP) components (N100, N200, P200, P300, early Late Positive Potential (LPP), middle LPP, and late LPP) of EEG data for the classification of emotional states (positive, negative, neutral). EEG datawere collected from 62 healthy individuals over 18 electrodes. An emotional paradigm with pictures from the International Affective Picture System (IAPS) was used to record the EEG data. A linear Support Vector Machine (C = 0.1) was used to classify emotions, and a forward feature selection approach was used to eliminate irrelevant features. The early LPP component, which was the most discriminative among all ERP components, had the highest classification accuracy (70.16%) for identifying negative and neutral stimuli. The classification of negative versus neutral stimuli had the best accuracy (79.84%) when all ERP components were used as a combined feature set, followed by positive versus negative stimuli (75.00%) and positive versus neutral stimuli (68.55%). Overall, the combined ERP component feature sets outperformed single ERP component feature sets for all stimulus pairings in terms of accuracy. These findings are promising for further research and development of EEG-based emotion recognition systems.
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Neural Signatures of Depression: Classifying Drug-Naive Mdd Patients With Time- and Frequency-Domain Eeg Features During Emotional Processing
(Iop Publishing Ltd, 2025) Sutcubasi, Bernis; Balli, Tugce; Metin, Baris; Tulay, Emine Elif
Accurate classification of major depressive disorder (MDD) remains a significant challenge, particularly because of the confounding effect of medications. This study bridges this gap by focusing on the classification of drug-na & iuml;ve individuals diagnosed with MDD and healthy controls (HCs) using electroencephalogram (EEG) data recorded during emotional processing tasks. This study involved 14 HCs and 14 drug-na & iuml;ve individuals diagnosed with MDD (aged 18-31, 12+ years of education, 12 F/2 M). The participants were presented with positive, neutral, and negative images collected from the International Affective Picture System. The mean power amplitudes of event-related potentials (ERP), including the P200, P300, early, middle, and late components of the late positive potential (LPP), were computed, along with band power features, and used as features for classifiers. A support vector machine model was employed for classification to evaluate the individual contributions of ERP components and band power features and explore the combined effects of ERP components and band power features within themselves. The alpha band power achieved the highest individual classification accuracy among the band power features for negative stimuli (92.86%). The late LPP component was the most discriminative ERP component for positive stimuli, yielding an accuracy rate of 89.29%. Combined analysis of the band power features exhibited high accuracy for both positive and negative stimuli (92.86% each). When the ERP components were combined, the classifier achieved the highest accuracy of 89.29% for both negative and neutral stimuli. Our findings suggest that alpha band power and LPP responses to negative and positive stimuli, respectively, can be used to detect MDD. The comparable performance of individual features to that of the combined feature sets indicates their strength as indicators of emotional processing in MDD. These findings provide valuable insights into the development of more reliable diagnostic tools and treatment monitoring strategies that focus on emotional processing in MDD.