Online EEG Seizure Detection and Localization

Epilepsy is one of the three most prevalent neurological disorders. A significant proportion of patients suffering from epilepsy can be effectively treated if their seizures are detected in a timely manner. However, detection of most seizures requires the attention of trained neurologists—a scarce r...

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Published in:Algorithms 2019-09, Vol.12 (9), p.176
Main Authors: Mansouri, Amirsalar, Singh, Sanjay P., Sayood, Khalid
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Algorithms
Convulsions & seizures
EEG
Electroencephalography
Epilepsy
False alarms
network analysis
Neurological diseases
non-patient-specific
on-line detection
Patients
Physiology
Portable equipment
PSD
seizure
Seizures
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Summary:Epilepsy is one of the three most prevalent neurological disorders. A significant proportion of patients suffering from epilepsy can be effectively treated if their seizures are detected in a timely manner. However, detection of most seizures requires the attention of trained neurologists—a scarce resource. Therefore, there is a need for an automatic seizure detection capability. A tunable non-patient-specific, non-seizure-specific method is proposed to detect the presence and locality of a seizure using electroencephalography (EEG) signals. This multifaceted computational approach is based on a network model of the brain and a distance metric based on the spectral profiles of EEG signals. This computationally time-efficient and cost-effective automated epileptic seizure detection algorithm has a median latency of 8 s, a median sensitivity of 83%, and a median false alarm rate of 2.9%. Hence, it is capable of being used in portable EEG devices to aid in the process of detecting and monitoring epileptic patients.
ISSN:1999-4893
1999-4893
DOI:10.3390/a12090176