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A novel approach for automated detection of focal EEG signals using empirical wavelet transform

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The determination of epileptogenic area is a prime task in presurgical evaluation. The seizure activity can be prevented by operating the affected areas by clinical surgery. In this paper, an automatic approach has been presented to detect electroencephalogram (EEG) signals of non-focal and focal groups. The proposed approach can be used to determine the area linked to the focal epilepsy. In our method, the EEG signal is decomposed into rhythms using empirical wavelet transform technique. The two-dimensional (2D) projections of the reconstructed phase space (RPS) have been obtained for the rhythms. Area measures for various RPS plots are estimated using central tendency measure (CTM) parameter. The area parameters are used with least-squares support vector machine (LS-SVM) classifier to classify the focal and non-focal classes of EEG signals. In this work, we have achieved a maximum classification accuracy of 90%, sensitivity and specificity of 88 and 92%, respectively, using 50 pairs of focal and non-focal EEG signals. The same method has achieved maximum classification accuracy, sensitivity and specificity of 82.53, 81.60 and 83.46%, respectively, with 750 pairs of signals. The developed prototype can be used for the epileptic patients and aid the clinicians to confirm diagnosis.

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  1. Discipline of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Indore, Indore, 453552, India

    Abhijit Bhattacharyya, Manish Sharma & Ram Bilas Pachori

  2. Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur, 208016, India

    Pradip Sircar

  3. Department of Electronics and Computer Engineering, Ngee Ann Polytechnic, Singapore, 599489, Singapore

    U. Rajendra Acharya

  4. Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Science and Technology, SIM University, Singapore, 599491, Singapore

    U. Rajendra Acharya

  5. Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

    U. Rajendra Acharya

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Bhattacharyya, A., Sharma, M., Pachori, R.B. et al. A novel approach for automated detection of focal EEG signals using empirical wavelet transform. Neural Comput & Applic 29, 47–57 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00521-016-2646-4

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