Seizure detection in electroencephalograms using data mining and signal processing

• Ano de defesa: 2017
• Autor(a) principal: Orellana, Marco Antônio Pinto
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: eng
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de Viçosa
• Palavras-chave em Português: Mineração de dados (Computação); Epilepsia; Eletroencefalografia de ritmo alfa; Doenças mentais; Ciência da Computação
• Link de acesso: http://www.locus.ufv.br/handle/123456789/11589

Epilepsy is one of the most common neurological diseases and is defined as the pre- disposition to suffer unprovoked seizures. The World Health Organization estimates that 50 million people are suffering this condition worldwide. Epilepsy diagnosis im- plies an expensive and long process based on the opinion of specialist personnel about electroencephalograms (EEGs) and video recordings. We have developed two meth- ods for automatic seizure detection using EEG and data mining. The first system is a patient-specific method that consists of extracting spectro-temporal features of 23 EEG channels, applying a dimension reduction algorithm, recovering the envelope of the signal, and creating a model using a random forest classifier. Testing this system against a large dataset, we reached 97% of specificity and 99% of sensitivity. Thus, our first proposal showed to have a great potential for diagnosis support in clinical context. The other developed system is a non-patient specific method that consists of selecting the differential signal of two electrodes, applying an array of filter banks to that signal, extracting time series features, and creating a predictive model using a decision tree. The performance of this method was 95% of specificity, and 87% of sensitivity. Although the performance is lower than previous propos- als, due to the design conditions and characteristics, our method allows an easier implementation with low hardware requirements. Both proposals presented here, using distinct approaches, demonstrate to be seizure prediction alternatives with very satisfactory performances under different circumstances and requirements.