RETRACTED: A novel real-time patient-specific seizure diagnosis algorithm based on analysis of EEG and ECG signals using spectral and spatial features and improved particle swarm optimization classifier

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The authors have plagiarized part of a paper that had already appeared in Clin. Neurophysiol., 118 (2007) 1348–1359, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.clinph.2007.02.015.

Furthermore, Table 1 contains values taken from a database produced by the Neonatal Brain Research Group of University College Cork, Ireland, which also correspond with Table 1 of the Clinical Neurophysiology paper.

Table 4 uses a dataset from Physionet (A. Shoeb, and J. Guttag. Application of Machine Learning to Epileptic Seizure Onset Detection. 27th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), June 21–24, 2010, Haifa, Israel).

However, the Cork and Physionet datasets are very different in size and nature: the Cork dataset documents 633 seizures in 10 neonates, whereas the Physionet database contains data for 173 seizures in 23 pediatric patients and one adult patient.

The source of the data actually employed for this study remains unclear, casting doubt on the conclusions drawn in Table 4.

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