Automatic detection of epileptic seizures in long-term EEG records

Epilepsy is a neurological disorder which affects nearly 1.5% of the world's total population. Trained physicians and neurologists visually scan the long-term electroencephalographic (EEG) records to identify epileptic seizures. It generally requires many hours to interpret the data. Therefore,...

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Autores: Garces Correa, Maria Agustina, Orosco, Lorena Liliana, Diez, Pablo Federico, Laciar Leber, Eric
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2015
País:Argentina
Institución:Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
Repositorio:CONICET Digital (CONICET)
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ri.conicet.gov.ar:11336/38013
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/11336/38013
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Eeg Frequency Bands
Epilepsy
Intracranial Eeg Records (Ieeg)
Power Spectrum
Wavelet Decomposition
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Sumario:Epilepsy is a neurological disorder which affects nearly 1.5% of the world's total population. Trained physicians and neurologists visually scan the long-term electroencephalographic (EEG) records to identify epileptic seizures. It generally requires many hours to interpret the data. Therefore, tools for quick detection of seizures in long-term EEG records are very useful. This study proposes an algorithm to help detect seizures in long-term iEEG based on low computational costs methods using Spectral Power and Wavelet analysis. The detector was tested on 21 invasive intracranial EEG (iEEG) records. A sensitivity of 85.39% was achieved. The results indicate that the proposed method detects epileptic seizures in long-term iEEG records successfully. Moreover, the algorithm does not require long processing time due to its simplicity. This feature will allow significant time reduction of the visual inspection of iEEG records performed by the specialists.