AUTHOR=Belhadi Asma , Lind Pedro G. , Djenouri Youcef , Yazidi Anis 

TITLE=Enhanced visibility graph for EEG classification

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Neuroscience

VOLUME=Volume 19 - 2025

YEAR=2025

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fnins.2025.1541062

DOI=10.3389/fnins.2025.1541062

ISSN=1662-453X

ABSTRACT=Electroencephalography (EEG) holds immense potential for decoding complex brain patterns associated with cognitive states and neurological conditions. In this paper, we propose an end-to-end framework for EEG classification that integrates power spectral density (PSD) and visibility graph (VG) features together with deep learning (DL) techniques. Our framework offers a holistic approach for capturing both frequency-domain characteristics and temporal dynamics of EEG signals. We evaluate four DL architectures, namely multilayer perceptron (MLP), long short-term memory (LSTM) networks, InceptionTime and ChronoNet, applied to several datasets and in different experimental conditions. Results demonstrate the efficacy of our framework in accurately classifying EEG data, in particular when using VG features. We also shed new light on the relative strengths and limitations of different feature extraction methods and DL architectures in the context of EEG classification. Our work contributes to advancing EEG analysis and facilitating the development of more accurate and reliable EEG-based systems for neuroscience and beyond. The full code of this research work is available on https://github.com/asmab89/VisibilityGraphs.git.