Automatic seizure detection using three-dimensional CNN based on multi-channel EEG.

Journal: BMC medical informatics and decision making
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Automated seizure detection from clinical EEG data can reduce the diagnosis time and facilitate targeting treatment for epileptic patients. However, current detection approaches mainly rely on limited features manually designed by domain experts, which are inflexible for the detection of a variety of patterns in a large amount of patients' EEG data. Moreover, conventional machine learning algorithms for seizure detection cannot accommodate multi-channel Electroencephalogram (EEG) data effectively, which contains both temporal and spatial information. Recently, deep learning technology has been widely applied to perform image processing tasks, which could learns useful features from data and process multi-channel data automatically. To provide an effective system for automatic seizure detection, we proposed a new three-dimensional (3D) convolutional neural network (CNN) structure, whose inputs are multi-channel EEG signals.

Authors

  • Xiaoyan Wei
    Department of Biomedical Engineering, Zhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, 510080, Guangdong Province, China.
  • Lin Zhou
    Guangdong Province Key Laboratory for Biotechnology Drug Candidates, School of Biosciences and Biopharmaceutics, Guangdong Pharmaceutical University Guangzhou 510006 People's Republic of China zhoulin@gdpu.edu.cn +86-20-39352151 +86-20-39352151.
  • Ziyi Chen
    Department of Neurology, The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, 510080, Guangdong Province, China.
  • Liangjun Zhang
    Department of Biomedical Engineering, Zhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, 510080, Guangdong Province, China.
  • Yi Zhou
    Eye Center of Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China.