Indian Institute of Technology Dhanbad

The study presents an EEG brain-computer interface signal-processing framework that combines hybrid MothCray channel-selection optimization — fusing moth-flame and crayfish optimization — with deep learning. After notch filtering, independent component analysis (ICA) and time-window segmentation, the MothCray algorithm identifies the most informative channels and a deep neural network adapted to EEG spatio-temporal features classifies. The model reached 93.92% accuracy on BCI Competition IV dataset IIa, ahead of existing methods.