Purpose: To examine the robustness of a pattern recognition system under the influence of noise in
Event Related Potentials (ERP) signals in discriminating controls from patients. Material and Methods: ERP
recordings were simulated by generating two series of signals, based on real signal templates from normal
controls and patients, with various levels of added-on Gaussian noise. From the resulting signals, a number of
waveform characteristic quantities were calculated and they were used as input to an ensemble classification
structure, which consisted of three different classifiers, namely the Bayesian classifier, the k-Nearest Neighbor
(kNN) and the Probabilistic Neural Network (PNN), and following the majority vote rule. Results: The
classification accuracies of individual classifiers were over 80% for the PNN and over 75% for the kNN and the
Bayesian. The ensemble structure improved classification precision resulting in an overall accuracy of over
87% for all noise levels tested. Conclusion: Results provide an estimation of the robustness of the developed
ensemble classification scheme, which may be of value to the clinician, given that ERP signals are usually
corrupted by noise in clinical practice.