Comparison of Baseline Cepstral Vector and Composite Vectors in the Automatic Seizure Detection Using Probabilistic Neural Networks
Epileptic seizures are abnormal sudden discharges in the brain with signatures manifesting in the electroencephalogram (EEG) recordings by frequency changes and increased amplitudes. These changes, in this work, are captured through traditional cepstrum and the cepstrum-derived dynamic features. We compared the performance of the traditional baseline cepstral vector with that of the two composite vectors, the first including velocity cepstral coefficients and the second including velocity and acceleration cepstral coefficients, using probabilistic neural network in general epileptic seizure detection. The comparison is tried on seven different classification problems which encompass all the possible discriminations in the medical field related to epilepsy. In this study, it is found that the overall performance of both the composite vectors deteriorates compared to that of baseline cepstral vector.