A combination of statistical parameters for epileptic seizure detection and classification using VMD and NLTWSVM

The epileptic seizure detection and classification is of great significance for clinical diagnosis and treatment. To realize the detection and classification of epileptic seizure, this paper proposes a method based on the combination of signal decomposition and statistical methods. First, the algorithm of variational mode decomposition (VMD) is applied to extract the components of intrinsic mode functions (IMFs) by decomposing the EEG signals. Then the statistical method is utilized to calculate the eight features of maximum, minimum, average, variance, skewness, kurtosis, coefficient of variation and volatility index for each extracted IMF component. Finally, the best combinations of extracted features are fed into the non-linear twin support vector machine (NLTWSVM) to classify the epileptic signals. The EEG database from University of Bonn is used to confirm the effectiveness of the proposed method for epileptic seizure detection. The final experimental results demonstrate that the classification accuracy can reach 98.86%, 98.37%, 99.02%, 99.41% and 99.57% for the database of C-E, D-E, CD-E, ABCD-E and AB-CD-E, respectively. The TUSZ corpus in the TUH EEG corpus is also used to classify epileptic seizure types using the method in this article. The result is expressed by the confusion matrix and the weighted F1 score is 0.923, which shows this method has potential to help experienced neurophysiologists classify epileptic seizure types in the clinic. (C) 2022 Nalecz Institute of Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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This paper proposes a method based on the combination of signal decomposition and statistical methods for the detection and classification of epileptic seizure. The experimental results demonstrate high accuracy of the proposed method in epileptic seizure detection and classification.