In current clinical practice, electroencephalograms (EEG) are reviewed and analyzed by well-trained neurologists to provide supports for therapeutic decisions. The way of manual reviewing is labor-intensive and error prone. Automatic and accurate seizure nonseizure classification methods are needed. One major problem is that the EEG signals for seizure state and nonseizure state exhibit considerable variations. In order to capture essential seizure features, this paper integrates an emerging deep learning model, the independently recurrent neural network (IndRNN), with a dense structure and an attention mechanism to exploit temporal and spatial discriminating features and overcome seizure variabilities. The dense structure is to ensure maximum information flow between layers. The attention mechanism is to capture spatial features. Evaluations are performed in cross-validation experiments over the noisy CHB-MIT data set. The obtained average sensitivity, specificity and precision of 88.80 , 88.60 and 88.69 are better than using the current state-of-the-art methods. In addition, we explore how the segment length affects the classification performance. Thirteen different segment lengths are assessed, showing that the classification performance varies over the segment lengths, and the maximal fluctuating margin is more than 4 . Thus, the segment length is an important factor influencing the classification performance.
The approaches developed in @cite_1 @cite_15 @cite_7 @cite_10 @cite_30 extracted multichannel information to do seizure detection. However, they did not differentiate channels.
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Abstract Objective A novel patient-specific seizure detection algorithm is presented. As the spatial distribution of the ictal pattern is characteristic for a patient’s seizures, this work incorporates such information into the data representation and provides a learning algorithm exploiting it. Methods The proposed training algorithm uses nuclear norm regularization to convey structural information of the channel-feature matrices extracted from the EEG. This method is compared to two existing approaches utilizing the same feature set, but integrating the multichannel information in a different manner. The performances of the detectors are demonstrated on a publicly available dataset containing 131 seizures recorded in 892 h of scalp EEG from 22 pediatric patients. Results The proposed algorithm performed significantly better compared to the reference approaches ( p = 0.0170 and p = 0.0002). It reaches a median performance of 100 sensitivity, 0.11 h −1 false detection rate and 7.8 s alarm delay, outperforming a method in the literature using the same dataset. Conclusion The strength of our method lies within conveying structural information from the multichannel EEG. Such formulation automatically includes crucial spatial information and improves detection performance. Significance Our solution facilitates accurate classification performance for small training sets, therefore, it potentially reduces the time needed to train the detector before starting monitoring. A novel wavelet-based algorithm for real-time detection of epileptic seizures using scalp EEG is proposed. In a moving-window analysis, the EEG from each channel is decomposed by wavelet packet transform. Using wavelet coefficients from seizure and nonseizure references, a patient-specific measure is developed to quantify the separation between seizure and nonseizure states for the frequency range of 1-30 Hz. Utilizing this measure, a frequency band representing the maximum separation between the two states is determined and employed to develop a normalized index, called combined seizure index (CSI). CSI is derived for each epoch of every EEG channel based on both rhythmicity and relative energy of that epoch as well as consistency among different channels. Increasing significantly during ictal states, CSI is inspected using one-sided cumulative sum test to generate proper channel alarms. Analyzing alarms from all channels, a seizure alarm is finally generated. The algorithm was tested on scalp EEG recordings from 14 patients, totaling 75.8 h with 63 seizures. Results revealed a high sensitivity of 90.5 , a false detection rate of 0.51 h-1 and a median detection delay of 7 s. The algorithm could also lateralize the focus side for patients with temporal lobe epilepsy. Detecting seizure using brain neuroactivations recorded by intracranial electroencephalogram (iEEG) has been widely used for monitoring, diagnosing, and closed-loop therapy of epileptic patients, however, computational efficiency gains are needed if state-of-the-art methods are to be implemented in implanted devices. We present a novel method for automatic seizure detection based on iEEG data that outperforms current state-of-the-art seizure detection methods in terms of computational efficiency while maintaining the accuracy. The proposed algorithm incorporates an automatic channel selection (ACS) engine as a pre-processing stage to the seizure detection procedure. The ACS engine consists of supervised classifiers which aim to find iEEG channels which contribute the most to a seizure. Seizure detection stage involves feature extraction and classification. Feature extraction is performed in both frequency and time domains where spectral power and correlation between channel pairs are calculated. Random Forest is used in classification of interictal, ictal and early ictal periods of iEEG signals. Seizure detection in this paper is retrospective and patient-specific. iEEG data is accessed via Kaggle, provided by International Epilepsy Electro-physiology Portal. The dataset includes a training set of 6.5 h of interictal data and 41 min in ictal data and a test set of 9.14 h. Compared to the state-of-the-art on the same dataset, we achieve 2 times faster in run-time seizure detection. The proposed model is able to detect a seizure onset at 89.40 sensitivity and 89.24 specificity with a mean detection delay of 2.63 s for the test set. The area under the ROC curve (AUC) is 96.94 , that is comparable to the current state-of-the-art with AUC of 96.29 . Automatic seizure detection plays an important role in long-term epilepsy monitoring, and seizure detection algorithms have been intensively investigated over the years. This paper proposes an algorithm for seizure detection using lacunarity and Bayesian linear discriminant analysis (BLDA) in long-term intracranial EEG. Lacunarity is a measure of heterogeneity for a fractal. The proposed method first conducts wavelet decomposition on EEGs with five scales, and selects the wavelet coefficients at scale 3, 4, and 5 for subsequent processing. Effective features including lacunarity and fluctuation index are extracted from the selected three scales, and then sent into the BLDA for training and classification. Finally, postprocessing which includes smoothing, threshold judgment, multichannels integration, and collar technique is applied to obtain high sensitivity and low false detection rate. The proposed algorithm is evaluated on 289.14 h intracranial EEG data from 21-patient Freiburg dataset and yields a sensitivity of 96.25 and a false detection rate of 0.13 h with a mean delay time of 13.8 s. Outstanding seizure detection algorithms have been developed over past two decades. Despite this success, their implementations as part of implantable or wearable devices are still limited. These works are mainly based on heavily handcrafted feature extraction, which is computationally expensive and is shown to be data set specific. These issues greatly limit the applicability of such methods to hardware implementation, including in-silicon implementations such as application specific integrated circuits. In this paper, we propose an integer convolutional neural network (CNN) implementation, Integer-Net, as a memory-efficient unified hardware-friendly CNN framework. The performance of Integer-Net is evaluated with multiple time-series data sets consisting of intracranial and scalp electroencephalogram (EEG) signals. Integer-Net shows a consistent seizure detection performance across three data sets: Freiburg Hospital intracranial EEG data set, Children’s Hospital of Boston-MIT scalp EEG data set, and UPenn and Mayo Clinic’s seizure detection data set. Our experimental results show that a 4-bit Integer-Net leads to only 2 drop of accuracy compared with a 32-bit real-value resolution CNN model, while offering more than 7 times improvement in memory efficiency. We discuss the structure of the integer convolution to improve the computational gain and reduce the inference time that are crucial for real-time application.