scholarly journals Reducing Electrodes based on Decision Tree Classification for EEG Motor Movement Data

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (3.12) ◽  
pp. 344
Author(s):  
Jayesh Deep Dubey ◽  
Deepak Arora ◽  
Pooja Khanna

Analysis of EEG data is one of the most important parts of Brain Computer Interface systems because EEG data consists of a substantial amount of crucial information that can be used for better study and improvements in BCI system. One of the problems with the analysis of EEG is the large amount of data that is produced, some of which might not be useful for the analysis. Therefore identifying the relevant data from the large amount of EEG data is important for better analysis. The objective of this study is to find out the performance of Random Forest classifier on the motor movement EEG data and reducing the number of electrodes that are considered in the EEG recording and analysis so that the amount of data that is produced through EEG recording is reduced and only relevant electrodes are considered in the analysis. The dataset used in the study is Physionet motor movement/imagery data which consists of EEG recordings obtained using 64 electrodes. These 64 electrodes were ranked based on their information gain with respect to the class using Info Gain attribute selection algorithm. The electrodes were then divided into 4 lists. List 1 consists of top 18 ranked electrodes and number of electrodes was increased by 15 [in ranked order] in each subsequent list. List 2, 3 and 4 consists of top 33, 48 and 64 electrodes respectively. The accuracy of random forest classifier for each of the list was compared with the accuracy of the classifier for the List 4 which consists of all the 64 electrodes. The additional electrodes in the List 4 were rejected because the accuracy of the classifier was almost same for List 4 and List3. Through this method we were able to reduce the electrodes from 64 to 48 with an average decrease of only 0.9% in the accuracy of the classifier. This reduction in the electrode can substantially reduce the time and effort required for analysis of EEG data.      

2018 ◽  
Vol 132 ◽  
pp. 1523-1532 ◽  
Author(s):  
Damodar Reddy Edla ◽  
Kunal Mangalorekar ◽  
Gauri Dhavalikar ◽  
Shubham Dodia

2019 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 325-339
Author(s):  
Muhammad Shaheen ◽  
Tanveer Zafar ◽  
Sajid Ali Khan

Selection of an attribute for placement of the decision tree at an appropriate position (e.g. root of the tree) is an important decision. Many attribute selection measures such as Information Gain, Gini Index and Entropy have been developed for this purpose. The suitability of an attribute generally depends on the diversity of its values, relevance and dependency. Different attribute selection measures have different criteria for measuring the suitability of an attribute. Diversity Index is a classical statistical measure for determining the diversity of values, and according to our knowledge, it has never been used as an attribute selection method. In this article, we propose a novel attribute selection method for decision tree classification. In the proposed scheme, the average of Information Gain, Gini Index and Diversity Index are taken into account for assigning a weight to the attributes. The attribute with the highest average value is selected for the classification. We have empirically tested our proposed algorithm for classification of different data sets of scientific journals and conferences. We have developed a web-based application named JC-Rank that makes use of our proposed algorithm. We have also compared the results of our proposed technique with some existing decision tree classification algorithms.


2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
B. Nassih ◽  
A. Amine ◽  
M. Ngadi ◽  
D. Naji ◽  
N. Hmina

Author(s):  
Carlos Domenick Morales-Molina ◽  
Diego Santamaria-Guerrero ◽  
Gabriel Sanchez-Perez ◽  
Hector Perez-Meana ◽  
Aldo Hernandez-Suarez

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Elisabeth Sartoretti ◽  
Thomas Sartoretti ◽  
Michael Wyss ◽  
Carolin Reischauer ◽  
Luuk van Smoorenburg ◽  
...  

AbstractWe sought to evaluate the utility of radiomics for Amide Proton Transfer weighted (APTw) imaging by assessing its value in differentiating brain metastases from high- and low grade glial brain tumors. We retrospectively identified 48 treatment-naïve patients (10 WHO grade 2, 1 WHO grade 3, 10 WHO grade 4 primary glial brain tumors and 27 metastases) with either primary glial brain tumors or metastases who had undergone APTw MR imaging. After image analysis with radiomics feature extraction and post-processing, machine learning algorithms (multilayer perceptron machine learning algorithm; random forest classifier) with stratified tenfold cross validation were trained on features and were used to differentiate the brain neoplasms. The multilayer perceptron achieved an AUC of 0.836 (receiver operating characteristic curve) in differentiating primary glial brain tumors from metastases. The random forest classifier achieved an AUC of 0.868 in differentiating WHO grade 4 from WHO grade 2/3 primary glial brain tumors. For the differentiation of WHO grade 4 tumors from grade 2/3 tumors and metastases an average AUC of 0.797 was achieved. Our results indicate that the use of radiomics for APTw imaging is feasible and the differentiation of primary glial brain tumors from metastases is achievable with a high degree of accuracy.


Author(s):  
K. J. Paprottka ◽  
S. Kleiner ◽  
C. Preibisch ◽  
F. Kofler ◽  
F. Schmidt-Graf ◽  
...  

Abstract Purpose To evaluate diagnostic accuracy of fully automated analysis of multimodal imaging data using [18F]-FET-PET and MRI (including amide proton transfer-weighted (APTw) imaging and dynamic-susceptibility-contrast (DSC) perfusion) in differentiation of tumor progression from treatment-related changes in patients with glioma. Material and methods At suspected tumor progression, MRI and [18F]-FET-PET data as part of a retrospective analysis of an observational cohort of 66 patients/74 scans (51 glioblastoma and 23 lower-grade-glioma, 8 patients included at two different time points) were automatically segmented into necrosis, FLAIR-hyperintense, and contrast-enhancing areas using an ensemble of deep learning algorithms. In parallel, previous MR exam was processed in a similar way to subtract preexisting tumor areas and focus on progressive tumor only. Within these progressive areas, intensity statistics were automatically extracted from [18F]-FET-PET, APTw, and DSC-derived cerebral-blood-volume (CBV) maps and used to train a Random Forest classifier with threefold cross-validation. To evaluate contribution of the imaging modalities to the classifier’s performance, impurity-based importance measures were collected. Classifier performance was compared with radiology reports and interdisciplinary tumor board assessments. Results In 57/74 cases (77%), tumor progression was confirmed histopathologically (39 cases) or via follow-up imaging (18 cases), while remaining 17 cases were diagnosed as treatment-related changes. The classification accuracy of the Random Forest classifier was 0.86, 95% CI 0.77–0.93 (sensitivity 0.91, 95% CI 0.81–0.97; specificity 0.71, 95% CI 0.44–0.9), significantly above the no-information rate of 0.77 (p = 0.03), and higher compared to an accuracy of 0.82 for MRI (95% CI 0.72–0.9), 0.81 for [18F]-FET-PET (95% CI 0.7–0.89), and 0.81 for expert consensus (95% CI 0.7–0.89), although these differences were not statistically significant (p > 0.1 for all comparisons, McNemar test). [18F]-FET-PET hot-spot volume was single-most important variable, with relevant contribution from all imaging modalities. Conclusion Automated, joint image analysis of [18F]-FET-PET and advanced MR imaging techniques APTw and DSC perfusion is a promising tool for objective response assessment in gliomas.


2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (S12) ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan C. Mier ◽  
Yejin Kim ◽  
Xiaoqian Jiang ◽  
Guo-Qiang Zhang ◽  
Samden Lhatoo

Abstract Background Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy (SUDEP) has increased in awareness considerably over the last two decades and is acknowledged as a serious problem in epilepsy. However, the scientific community remains unclear on the reason or possible bio markers that can discern potentially fatal seizures from other non-fatal seizures. The duration of postictal generalized EEG suppression (PGES) is a promising candidate to aid in identifying SUDEP risk. The length of time a patient experiences PGES after a seizure may be used to infer the risk a patient may have of SUDEP later in life. However, the problem becomes identifying the duration, or marking the end, of PGES (Tomson et al. in Lancet Neurol 7(11):1021–1031, 2008; Nashef in Epilepsia 38:6–8, 1997). Methods This work addresses the problem of marking the end to PGES in EEG data, extracted from patients during a clinically supervised seizure. This work proposes a sensitivity analysis on EEG window size/delay, feature extraction and classifiers along with associated hyperparameters. The resulting sensitivity analysis includes the Gradient Boosted Decision Trees and Random Forest classifiers trained on 10 extracted features rooted in fundamental EEG behavior using an EEG specific feature extraction process (pyEEG) and 5 different window sizes or delays (Bao et al. in Comput Intell Neurosci 2011:1687–5265, 2011). Results The machine learning architecture described above scored a maximum AUC score of 76.02% with the Random Forest classifier trained on all extracted features. The highest performing features included SVD Entropy, Petrosan Fractal Dimension and Power Spectral Intensity. Conclusion The methods described are effective in automatically marking the end to PGES. Future work should include integration of these methods into the clinical setting and using the results to be able to predict a patient’s SUDEP risk.


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