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In this paper, a new method to predict cross-subject emotion using time-series analysis and spatial correlation is proposed. To represent the spatial connectivity between brain regions, a channel-wise feature is proposed, which can effectively handle the correlation between all channels. The channel-wise feature is defined by a symmetric matrix, the elements of which are calculated by the Pearson correlation coefficient between two-pair channels capable of complementarily handling subject-specific variability. The channel-wise features are then fed to two-layer stacked long short-term memory (LSTM), which can extract temporal features and learn an emotional model. Extensive experiments on two publicly available datasets, the Dataset for Emotion Analysis using Physiological Signals (DEAP) and the SJTU (Shanghai Jiao Tong University) Emotion EEG Dataset (SEED), demonstrate the effectiveness of the combined use of channel-wise features and LSTM. Experimental results achieve state-of-the-art classification rates of 98.93% and 99.10% during the two-class classification of valence and arousal in DEAP, respectively, with an accuracy of 99.63% during three-class classification in SEED.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s20236719","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,11,24]],"date-time":"2020-11-24T09:06:28Z","timestamp":1606208788000},"page":"6719","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":28,"title":["Interpretable Cross-Subject EEG-Based Emotion Recognition Using Channel-Wise Features"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"20","author":[{"given":"Longbin","family":"Jin","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Computer Science and Engineering, Konkuk University, Seoul 05029, Korea"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Eun Yi","family":"Kim","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Computer Science and Engineering, Konkuk University, Seoul 05029, Korea"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,11,24]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","unstructured":"Damasio, A.R. 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