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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Hum. Neurosci.
Sec. Brain Imaging and Stimulation
Volume 19 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2025.1503228

PilotCareTrans Net: An EEG Data-Driven Transformer for Pilot Health Monitoring

Provisionally accepted
Zhao Kun Zhao Kun 1Guo Xueying Guo Xueying 2*
  • 1 Physical Education Department ,Civil Aviation Univesity of China,Tian jin,300300, China, Tian jin, China
  • 2 Civil Aviation University of China, Tianjin, China

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    In high-stakes environments such as aviation, monitoring cognitive and mental health is crucial, with electroencephalogram (EEG) data emerging as a key tool for this purpose.However, traditional methods like linear models, Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM), and Gated Recurrent Unit (GRU) architectures often struggle to capture the complex, non-linear temporal dependencies in EEG signals. These approaches typically fail to integrate multi-scale features effectively, resulting in suboptimal health intervention decisions, especially in dynamic, highpressure environments like pilot training. To overcome these challenges, this study introduces PilotCareTrans Net, a novel Transformer-based model designed for health intervention decisionmaking in aviation students. The model incorporates dynamic attention mechanisms, temporal convolutional layers, and multi-scale feature integration, enabling it to capture intricate temporal dynamics in EEG data more effectively. PilotCareTrans Net was evaluated on multiple public EEG datasets, including MODA, STEW, SJTU Emotion EEG, and Sleep-EDF, where it outperformed state-of-the-art models in key metrics. The experimental results demonstrate the model's ability to not only enhance prediction accuracy but also reduce computational complexity, making it suitable for real-time applications in resource-constrained settings. These findings indicate that PilotCareTrans Net holds significant potential for improving cognitive health monitoring and intervention strategies in aviation, thereby contributing to enhanced safety and performance in critical environments.

    Keywords: Pilot Health Monitoring, Transformer-based Model, EEG data analysis, temporal dynamics, Cognitive health intervention

    Received: 19 Oct 2024; Accepted: 08 Jan 2025.

    Copyright: © 2025 Kun and Xueying. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Guo Xueying, Civil Aviation University of China, Tianjin, China

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