Jurnal ULTIMA InfoSys
Vol 17 No 1 (2026): Ultima InfoSys : Jurnal Ilmu Sistem Informasi

Redundancy-Aware Feature Selection using mRMR and F-Test for EEG Emotion Classification

Ira Febrianti (Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember)
Carens Chanda Claudhyta Hasan (Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember)
Nadzifatu Chomtsa (Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember)
Hanifa Khairunisa (Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember)
Deandra Faysa Mardatila (Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember)
Yuri Pamungkas (Institut Teknologi Sepuluh November)



Article Info

Publish Date
30 Jun 2026

Abstract

Emotions play an essential role in human interaction, driving the development of reliable automatic emotion recognition systems. Electroencephalography (EEG) offers a noninvasive method to record neural activity related to emotional states; however, many existing studies focus on limited feature configurations or binary classification problems. This research examines the influence of feature dimensionality and classifier selection on three-class EEG-based emotion recognition involving positive, neutral, and negative categories. The primary contribution of this study is a systematic assessment of feature and classifier compatibility across 28 experimental scenarios within a unified evaluation framework. Using a publicly available EEG dataset containing statistical and spectral features, selection was conducted using F-test and Minimum Redundancy Maximum Relevance (mRMR) methods, isolating the top 5, 10, and 15 features alongside the complete set. Four classifiers (Random Forest, Support Vector Machine, K-Nearest Neighbors, and Neural Networks) were evaluated via a 70/30 hold-out validation scheme using accuracy, F1-score, and Area Under the Curve (AUC). Results indicate that Random Forest trained with the full feature set achieved the highest performance, reaching 99.53% accuracy and 0.9994 AUC. These findings suggest that ensemble-based models demonstrate greater robustness when handling high-dimensional EEG features in multi-class emotion recognition.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

SI

Publisher

Subject

Computer Science & IT

Description

Jurnal ULTIMA InfoSys merupakan Jurnal Program Studi Sistem Informasi Universitas Multimedia Nusantara yang menyajikan artikel-artikel penelitian ilmiah dalam bidang Sistem Informasi, serta isu-isu teoritis dan praktis yang terkini, mencakup sistem basis data, sistem informasi manajemen, analisis ...