Seizure classification with selected frequency bands and EEG montages: a Natural Language Processing approach

Abstract Individualized treatment is crucial for epileptic patients with different types of seizures. The differences among patients impact the drug choice as well as the surgery procedure. With the advance in machine learning, automatic seizure detection can ease the manual time-consuming and labor...

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Main Authors: Ziwei Wang, Paolo Mengoni
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2022-05-01
Series:Brain Informatics
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s40708-022-00159-3
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description Abstract Individualized treatment is crucial for epileptic patients with different types of seizures. The differences among patients impact the drug choice as well as the surgery procedure. With the advance in machine learning, automatic seizure detection can ease the manual time-consuming and labor-intensive procedure for diagnose seizure in the clinical setting. In this paper, we present an electroencephalography (EEG) frequency bands (sub-bands) and montages selection (sub-zones) method for classifier training that exploits Natural Language Processing from individual patients’ clinical report. The proposed approach is targeting for individualized treatment. We integrated the prior knowledge from patient’s reports into the classifier-building process, mimicking the authentic thinking process of experienced neurologist’s when diagnosing seizure using EEG. The keywords from clinical documents are mapped to the EEG data in terms of frequency bands and scalp EEG electrodes. The data of experiments are from the Temple University Hospital EEG seizure corpus, and the dataset is divided based on each group of patients with same seizure type and same recording electrode references. The classifier includes Random Forest, Support Vector Machine and Multi-Layer Perceptron. The classification performance indicates that competitive results can be achieve with a small portion of EEG the data. Using the sub-zones selection for Generalized Seizures (GNSZ) on all three electrodes, data are reduced by nearly 50% while the performance metrics remain at the same level with the whole frequency and zones. Moreover, when selecting by sub-zones and sub-bands together for GNSZ with Linked Ears reference, the data range reduced to 0.3% of whole range, and the performance deviates less than 3% from the results with whole range of data. Results show that using proposed approach may lead to more efficient implementations of the seizure classifier to be executed on power-efficient devices for long lasting real-time seizures detection.
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spelling doaj.art-9c40de669d67441d8fc7b5c354a6e1bf2022-12-22T03:23:59ZengSpringerOpenBrain Informatics2198-40182198-40262022-05-019113110.1186/s40708-022-00159-3Seizure classification with selected frequency bands and EEG montages: a Natural Language Processing approachZiwei Wang0Paolo Mengoni1Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies, Hong Kong Baptist UniversityDepartment of Journalism, Hong Kong Baptist UniversityAbstract Individualized treatment is crucial for epileptic patients with different types of seizures. The differences among patients impact the drug choice as well as the surgery procedure. With the advance in machine learning, automatic seizure detection can ease the manual time-consuming and labor-intensive procedure for diagnose seizure in the clinical setting. In this paper, we present an electroencephalography (EEG) frequency bands (sub-bands) and montages selection (sub-zones) method for classifier training that exploits Natural Language Processing from individual patients’ clinical report. The proposed approach is targeting for individualized treatment. We integrated the prior knowledge from patient’s reports into the classifier-building process, mimicking the authentic thinking process of experienced neurologist’s when diagnosing seizure using EEG. The keywords from clinical documents are mapped to the EEG data in terms of frequency bands and scalp EEG electrodes. The data of experiments are from the Temple University Hospital EEG seizure corpus, and the dataset is divided based on each group of patients with same seizure type and same recording electrode references. The classifier includes Random Forest, Support Vector Machine and Multi-Layer Perceptron. The classification performance indicates that competitive results can be achieve with a small portion of EEG the data. Using the sub-zones selection for Generalized Seizures (GNSZ) on all three electrodes, data are reduced by nearly 50% while the performance metrics remain at the same level with the whole frequency and zones. Moreover, when selecting by sub-zones and sub-bands together for GNSZ with Linked Ears reference, the data range reduced to 0.3% of whole range, and the performance deviates less than 3% from the results with whole range of data. Results show that using proposed approach may lead to more efficient implementations of the seizure classifier to be executed on power-efficient devices for long lasting real-time seizures detection.https://doi.org/10.1186/s40708-022-00159-3SeizureElectroencephalographyFrequency bands selectionNatural Language ProcessingClassificationEpileptic seizure
spellingShingle Ziwei Wang
Paolo Mengoni
Seizure classification with selected frequency bands and EEG montages: a Natural Language Processing approach
Brain Informatics
Seizure
Electroencephalography
Frequency bands selection
Natural Language Processing
Classification
Epileptic seizure
title Seizure classification with selected frequency bands and EEG montages: a Natural Language Processing approach
title_full Seizure classification with selected frequency bands and EEG montages: a Natural Language Processing approach
title_fullStr Seizure classification with selected frequency bands and EEG montages: a Natural Language Processing approach
title_full_unstemmed Seizure classification with selected frequency bands and EEG montages: a Natural Language Processing approach
title_short Seizure classification with selected frequency bands and EEG montages: a Natural Language Processing approach
title_sort seizure classification with selected frequency bands and eeg montages a natural language processing approach
topic Seizure
Electroencephalography
Frequency bands selection
Natural Language Processing
Classification
Epileptic seizure
url https://doi.org/10.1186/s40708-022-00159-3
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