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To stimulate the brain and capture characteristic brain signals, these systems generally require the user to perform specific activities such as deeply concentrating on an image, mental activity, visual counting, etc. This study investigates whether effective authentication would be feasible for users tasked with a minimal daily activity such as lifting a tiny object. With this novel protocol, the minimum number of EEG electrodes (channels) with the highest performance (ranked) was identified to improve user comfort and acceptance over traditional 32\u201364 electrode-based EEG systems while also reducing the load of real-time data processing. For this proof of concept, a public dataset was employed, which contains 32 channels of EEG data from 12 participants performing a motor task without intent for authentication. The data was filtered into five frequency bands, and 12 different features were extracted to train a random forest-based machine learning model. All channels were ranked according to Gini Impurity. It was found that only 14 channels are required to perform authentication when EEG data is filtered into the Gamma sub-band within a 1% accuracy of using 32-channels. This analysis will allow (a) the design of a custom headset with 14 electrodes clustered over the frontal and occipital lobe of the brain, (b) a reduction in data collection difficulty while performing authentication, (c) minimizing dataset size to allow real-time authentication while maintaining reasonable performance, and (d) an API for use in ranking authentication performance in different headsets and tasks.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s22239156","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,11,28]],"date-time":"2022-11-28T08:13:09Z","timestamp":1669623189000},"page":"9156","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":11,"title":["Channel Reduction for an EEG-Based Authentication System While Performing Motor Movements"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"22","author":[{"given":"Ellen C.","family":"Ketola","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY 13699, USA"}]},{"given":"Mikenzie","family":"Barankovich","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY 13699, USA"}]},{"given":"Stephanie","family":"Schuckers","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY 13699, USA"}]},{"given":"Aratrika","family":"Ray-Dowling","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY 13699, USA"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-8401-7157","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Daqing","family":"Hou","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY 13699, USA"}]},{"given":"Masudul H.","family":"Imtiaz","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY 13699, USA"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,11,25]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Katsini, C., Belk, M., Fidas, C., Avouris, N., and Samaras, G. 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