Epileptic Seizure Detection Based on EEG Signals and CNN

Epilepsy is a neurological disorder that affects approximately fifty million people according to the World Health Organization. While electroencephalography (EEG) plays important roles in monitoring the brain activity of patients with epilepsy and diagnosing epilepsy, an expert is needed to analyze...

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Main Authors: Mengni Zhou, Cheng Tian, Rui Cao, Bin Wang, Yan Niu, Ting Hu, Hao Guo, Jie Xiang
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Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-12-01
Series:Frontiers in Neuroinformatics
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fninf.2018.00095/full
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author Mengni Zhou
Cheng Tian
Rui Cao
Bin Wang
Yan Niu
Ting Hu
Hao Guo
Jie Xiang
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Cheng Tian
Rui Cao
Bin Wang
Yan Niu
Ting Hu
Hao Guo
Jie Xiang
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description Epilepsy is a neurological disorder that affects approximately fifty million people according to the World Health Organization. While electroencephalography (EEG) plays important roles in monitoring the brain activity of patients with epilepsy and diagnosing epilepsy, an expert is needed to analyze all EEG recordings to detect epileptic activity. This method is obviously time-consuming and tedious, and a timely and accurate diagnosis of epilepsy is essential to initiate antiepileptic drug therapy and subsequently reduce the risk of future seizures and seizure-related complications. In this study, a convolutional neural network (CNN) based on raw EEG signals instead of manual feature extraction was used to distinguish ictal, preictal, and interictal segments for epileptic seizure detection. We compared the performances of time and frequency domain signals in the detection of epileptic signals based on the intracranial Freiburg and scalp CHB-MIT databases to explore the potential of these parameters. Three types of experiments involving two binary classification problems (interictal vs. preictal and interictal vs. ictal) and one three-class problem (interictal vs. preictal vs. ictal) were conducted to explore the feasibility of this method. Using frequency domain signals in the Freiburg database, average accuracies of 96.7, 95.4, and 92.3% were obtained for the three experiments, while the average accuracies for detection in the CHB-MIT database were 95.6, 97.5, and 93% in the three experiments. Using time domain signals in the Freiburg database, the average accuracies were 91.1, 83.8, and 85.1% in the three experiments, while the signal detection accuracies in the CHB-MIT database were only 59.5, 62.3, and 47.9% in the three experiments. Based on these results, the three cases are effectively detected using frequency domain signals. However, the effective identification of the three cases using time domain signals as input samples is achieved for only some patients. Overall, the classification accuracies of frequency domain signals are significantly increased compared to time domain signals. In addition, frequency domain signals have greater potential than time domain signals for CNN applications.
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spelling doaj.art-705d5336aefe419ebd510ba8706e4cf42022-12-22T00:22:03ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Neuroinformatics1662-51962018-12-011210.3389/fninf.2018.00095425101Epileptic Seizure Detection Based on EEG Signals and CNNMengni Zhou0Cheng Tian1Rui Cao2Bin Wang3Yan Niu4Ting Hu5Hao Guo6Jie Xiang7College of Information and Computer Science, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan, ChinaCollege of Information and Computer Science, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan, ChinaSoftware College, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan, ChinaCollege of Information and Computer Science, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan, ChinaCollege of Information and Computer Science, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan, ChinaCollege of Information and Computer Science, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan, ChinaCollege of Information and Computer Science, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan, ChinaCollege of Information and Computer Science, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan, ChinaEpilepsy is a neurological disorder that affects approximately fifty million people according to the World Health Organization. While electroencephalography (EEG) plays important roles in monitoring the brain activity of patients with epilepsy and diagnosing epilepsy, an expert is needed to analyze all EEG recordings to detect epileptic activity. This method is obviously time-consuming and tedious, and a timely and accurate diagnosis of epilepsy is essential to initiate antiepileptic drug therapy and subsequently reduce the risk of future seizures and seizure-related complications. In this study, a convolutional neural network (CNN) based on raw EEG signals instead of manual feature extraction was used to distinguish ictal, preictal, and interictal segments for epileptic seizure detection. We compared the performances of time and frequency domain signals in the detection of epileptic signals based on the intracranial Freiburg and scalp CHB-MIT databases to explore the potential of these parameters. Three types of experiments involving two binary classification problems (interictal vs. preictal and interictal vs. ictal) and one three-class problem (interictal vs. preictal vs. ictal) were conducted to explore the feasibility of this method. Using frequency domain signals in the Freiburg database, average accuracies of 96.7, 95.4, and 92.3% were obtained for the three experiments, while the average accuracies for detection in the CHB-MIT database were 95.6, 97.5, and 93% in the three experiments. Using time domain signals in the Freiburg database, the average accuracies were 91.1, 83.8, and 85.1% in the three experiments, while the signal detection accuracies in the CHB-MIT database were only 59.5, 62.3, and 47.9% in the three experiments. Based on these results, the three cases are effectively detected using frequency domain signals. However, the effective identification of the three cases using time domain signals as input samples is achieved for only some patients. Overall, the classification accuracies of frequency domain signals are significantly increased compared to time domain signals. In addition, frequency domain signals have greater potential than time domain signals for CNN applications.https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fninf.2018.00095/fullepilepsyelectroencephalogramconvolutional neural networkstime domain signalsfrequency domain signals
spellingShingle Mengni Zhou
Cheng Tian
Rui Cao
Bin Wang
Yan Niu
Ting Hu
Hao Guo
Jie Xiang
Epileptic Seizure Detection Based on EEG Signals and CNN
Frontiers in Neuroinformatics
epilepsy
electroencephalogram
convolutional neural networks
time domain signals
frequency domain signals
title Epileptic Seizure Detection Based on EEG Signals and CNN
title_full Epileptic Seizure Detection Based on EEG Signals and CNN
title_fullStr Epileptic Seizure Detection Based on EEG Signals and CNN
title_full_unstemmed Epileptic Seizure Detection Based on EEG Signals and CNN
title_short Epileptic Seizure Detection Based on EEG Signals and CNN
title_sort epileptic seizure detection based on eeg signals and cnn
topic epilepsy
electroencephalogram
convolutional neural networks
time domain signals
frequency domain signals
url https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fninf.2018.00095/full
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