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Convolutional Transformer Networks for Epileptic Seizure Detection

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Epilepsy is a chronic neurological disease that affects many people in the world. Automatic epileptic seizure detection based on electroencephalogram (EEG) signals is of great significance and has been widely studied. The current deep learning epilepsy detection algorithms are often designed to be relatively simple and seldom consider the characteristics of EEG signals. In this paper, we propose a promising epilepsy detection model based on convolutional transformer networks. We demonstrate that integrating convolution and transformer modules can achieve higher detection performance. Our convolutional transformer model is composed of two branches: one extracts time-domain features from multiple inputs of channel-exchanged EEG signals, and the other handle frequency-domain representations. Experiments on two EEG datasets show that our model offers state-of-the-art performance. Particularly on the CHB-MIT dataset, our model achieves 96.02% in average sensitivity and 97.94% in average specificity, outperforming other existing methods with clear margins.

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