Automated Epileptic Seizure Type Classification through Quantitative Movement Analysis

<div>Epilepsy affect almost 1% of the worldwide population. An early diagnosis of seizure types is a patient-dependent process which is crucial for the treatment selection process. The selection of the proper treatment relies on the correct identification of seizures type. As such, identifying the seizure type has the biggest immediate influence on therapy than the seizure detection, reducing the neurologist’s efforts when reading and detecting seizures in EEG recordings. Most of the existing seizure detection and classification methods are conceptualized following the patient-dependent schema thus fail to perform well with unknown cases. Our work focuses on patient-independent schema for seizure type classification and pays more attention to the explainability of the underlying attention mechanism of our method. Using a channel-wise attention mechanism, a quantification of the EEG channels contribution is enabled. Therefore, results become more interpretable and a visualization of brain lobes contribution by seizure types is allowed. We evaluate our model for seizure detection and type classification on CHB-MIT and the recently released TUH EEG Seizure, respectively. Our model is able to classify 8 seizure types with an accuracy of 98.41%, directly from raw EEG data without any preprocessing. A case study showed a high correlation between the neurological baselines and the interpretable results of our model.</div>

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A channel-wise attention-based representation learning method for epileptic seizure detection and type classification

10.36227/techrxiv.17087147 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Asma Baghdadi ◽

Rahma fourati ◽

yassine Aribi ◽

Sawsan Daoud ◽

Mariem Dammak ◽

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Keyword(s):

Selection Process ◽

Representation Learning ◽

Seizure Detection ◽

Attention Mechanism ◽

Seizure Type ◽

Correct Identification ◽

Worldwide Population ◽

Eeg Data ◽

Eeg Recordings ◽

Type Classification

<div>Epilepsy affect almost 1% of the worldwide population. An early diagnosis of seizure types is a patient-dependent process which is crucial for the treatment selection process. The selection of the proper treatment relies on the correct identification of seizures type. As such, identifying the seizure type has the biggest immediate influence on therapy than the seizure detection, reducing the neurologist’s efforts when reading and detecting seizures in EEG recordings. Most of the existing seizure detection and classification methods are conceptualized following the patient-dependent schema thus fail to perform well with unknown cases. Our work focuses on patient-independent schema for seizure type classification and pays more attention to the explainability of the underlying attention mechanism of our method. Using a channel-wise attention mechanism, a quantification of the EEG channels contribution is enabled. Therefore, results become more interpretable and a visualization of brain lobes contribution by seizure types is allowed. We evaluate our model for seizure detection and type classification on CHB-MIT and the recently released TUH EEG Seizure, respectively. Our model is able to classify 8 seizure types with an accuracy of 98.41%, directly from raw EEG data without any preprocessing. A case study showed a high correlation between the neurological baselines and the interpretable results of our model.</div>

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Automated Deep Neural Network Approach for Detection of Epileptic Seizures

10.36939/ir.202201121150 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

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Nadia Moazen

Keyword(s):

Epileptic Seizure ◽

Short Term Memory ◽

Learning Algorithm ◽

Epileptic Seizures ◽

Series Data ◽

Seizure Type ◽

Neural Network Approach ◽

Daily Lives ◽

Deep Learning Algorithm ◽

Reliable Performance

In this thesis, I focus on exploiting electroencephalography (EEG) signals for early seizure diagnosis in patients. This process is based on a powerful deep learning algorithm for times series data called Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) network. Since manual and visual inspection (detection) of epileptic seizure through the electroencephalography (EEG) signal by expert neurologists is time-consuming, work-intensive and error-prone and it might take a couple hours for experts to analyze a single patient record and to do recognition when immediate action is needed to be taken. This thesis proposes a reliable automatic seizure/non-seizure classification method that could facilitate the identification process of characteristic epileptic patterns, such as pre-ictal spikes, seizures and determination of seizure frequency, seizure type, etc. In order to recognize epileptic seizure accurately, the proposed model exploits the temporal dependencies in the EEG data. Experiments on clinical data present that this method achieves a high seizure prediction accuracy and maintains reliable performance. This thesis also finds the most efficient lengths of EEG recording for highest accuracies of different classification in the automated seizure detection realm. It could help non-experts to predict the seizure more comprehensively and bring awareness to patients and caregivers of upcoming seizures, enhancing the daily lives of patients against unpredictable occurrence of seizures.

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