An automated methodology for the classification of focal and nonfocal EEG signals using a hybrid classification approach

The uncertainty in human brain leads to the formation of epilepsy disease in human. The automatic detection and severity analysis of epilepsy disease is proposed in this article using a hybrid classification algorithm. The proposed method consists of decomposition stage, feature extraction, and classification stages. The electroencephalogram (EEG) signals are decomposed using dual-tree complex wavelet transform and then features are extracted from these coefficients. These features are then classified using the neural network classification approach in order to classify the EEG signals into either focal or nonfocal EEG signals. Furthermore, severity of the focal EEG signal is analyzed using an adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system classification approach. The proposed hybrid classification method for the classification of focal signals and nonfocal signals achieved 98.6% of sensitivity, 99.1% of specificity, and 99.4% of accuracy. The average detection rate for both focal and nonfocal dataset is about 98.5%.     

Human Emotions Classification Using EEG via Audiovisual Stimuli and AI

Electroencephalogram (EEG) is a medical imaging technology that can measure the electrical activity of the scalp produced by the brain, measured and recorded chronologically the surface of the scalp from the brain. The recorded signals from the brain are rich with useful information. The inference of this useful information is a challenging task. This paper aims to process the EEG signals for the recognition of human emotions specifically happiness, anger, fear, sadness, and surprise in response to audiovisual stimuli. The EEG signals are recorded by placing neurosky mindwave headset on the subject’s scalp, in response to audiovisual stimuli for the mentioned emotions. Using a bandpass filter with a bandwidth of 1–100 Hz, recorded raw EEG signals are preprocessed. The preprocessed signals then further analyzed and twelve selected features in different domains are extracted. The Random forest (RF) and multilayer perceptron (MLP) algorithms are then used for the classification of the emotions through extracted features. The proposed audiovisual stimuli based EEG emotion classification system shows an average classification accuracy of 80% and 88% using MLP and RF classifiers respectively on hybrid features for experimental signals of different subjects. The proposed model outperforms in terms of cost and accuracy.     

Spatial analysis of intracerebral electroencephalographic signals in the time and frequency domain: identification of epileptogenic networks in partial epilepsy

Electroencephalography (EEG) occupies an important place for studying human brain activity in general, and epileptic processes in particular, with appropriate time resolution. Scalp EEG or intracerebral EEG signals recorded in patients with drug-resistant partial epilepsy convey important information about epileptogenic networks that must be localized and understood prior to subsequent therapeutic procedures. However, this information, often subtle, is 'hidden' in the signals. It is precisely the role of signal processing to extract this information and to put it into a 'coherent and interpretable picture' that can participate in the therapeutic strategy. Nowadays, the panel of available methods is very wide depending on the objectives such as, for instance, the detection of transient epileptiform events, the detection and/or prediction of seizures, the recognition and/or the classification of EEG patterns, the localization of epileptic neuronal sources, the characterization of neural synchrony, the determination of functional connectivity, among others. The intent of this paper is to focus on a specific category of methods providing relevant information about epileptogenic networks from the analysis of spatial properties of EEG signals in the time and frequency domain. These methods apply to either interictal or ictal recordings and share the common objective of localizing the subsets of brain structures involved in both types of paroxysmal activity. Most of these methods were developed by our group and are routinely used during pre-surgical evaluation. Examples are detailed. Results, as well as limitations of the methods, are also discussed.     

Classification of Electroencephalogram Signals Using LSTM and SVM Based on Fast Walsh-Hadamard Transform

Classification of electroencephalogram (EEG) signals for humans can be achieved via artificial intelligence (AI) techniques. Especially, the EEG signals associated with seizure epilepsy can be detected to distinguish between epileptic and non-epileptic regions. From this perspective, an automated AI technique with a digital processing method can be used to improve these signals. This paper proposes two classifiers: long short-term memory (LSTM) and support vector machine (SVM) for the classification of seizure and non-seizure EEG signals. These classifiers are applied to a public dataset, namely the University of Bonn, which consists of 2 classes –seizure and non-seizure. In addition, a fast Walsh-Hadamard Transform (FWHT) technique is implemented to analyze the EEG signals within the recurrence space of the brain. Thus, Hadamard coefficients of the EEG signals are obtained via the FWHT. Moreover, the FWHT is contributed to generate an efficient derivation of seizure EEG recordings from non-seizure EEG recordings. Also, a k-fold cross-validation technique is applied to validate the performance of the proposed classifiers. The LSTM classifier provides the best performance, with a testing accuracy of 99.00%. The training and testing loss rates for the LSTM are 0.0029 and 0.0602, respectively, while the weighted average precision, recall, and F1-score for the LSTM are 99.00%. The results of the SVM classifier in terms of accuracy, sensitivity, and specificity reached 91%, 93.52%, and 91.3%, respectively. The computational time consumed for the training of the LSTM and SVM is 2000 and 2500 s, respectively. The results show that the LSTM classifier provides better performance than SVM in the classification of EEG signals. Eventually, the proposed classifiers provide high classification accuracy compared to previously published classifiers.     

Diagnosis of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder using non‐linear analysis of the EEG signal

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a common behavioural disorder that may be found in 5%–8% of the children. Early diagnosis of ADHD is crucial for treating the disease and reducing its harmful effects on education, employment, relationships, and life quality. On the other hand, non‐linear analysis methods are widely applied in processing the electroencephalogram (EEG) signals. It has been proved that the brain neuronal activity and its related EEG signals have chaotic behaviour. Hence, chaotic indices can be employed to classify the EEG signals. In this study, a new approach is proposed based on the combination of some non‐linear features to distinguish ADHD from normal children. Lyapunov exponent, fractal dimension, correlation dimension and sample, fuzzy and approximate entropies are the non‐linear extracted features. For computing, the chaotic time series of obtained EEG in the brain frontal lobe (FP1, FP2, F3, F4, and Fz) need to be analysed. Experiments on a set of EEG signal obtained from 50 ADHD and 26 normal cases yielded a sensitivity, specificity, and accuracy of 98, 92.31, and 96.05%, respectively. The obtained accuracy provides a significant improvement in comparison to the other similar studies in identifying and classifying children with ADHD.Inspec keywords: feature extraction, time series, fractals, electroencephalography, medical disorders, neurophysiology, medical signal processing, entropy, signal classification, Lyapunov methodsOther keywords: nonlinear extracted features, chaotic time series, identifying classifying children, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, nonlinear analysis methods, electroencephalogram signals, brain neuronal activity, chaotic behaviour, chaotic indices, EEG signals, nonlinear features, approximate entropies, common behavioural disorder, early diagnosis, life quality, ADHD     

Epileptic Seizures Diagnosis Using Amalgamated Extremely Focused EEG Signals and Brain MRI

There exists various neurological disorder based diseases like tumor, sleep disorder, headache, dementia and Epilepsy. Among these, epilepsy is the most common neurological illness in humans, comparable to stroke. Epilepsy is a severe chronic neurological illness that can be discovered through analysis of the signals generated by brain neurons and brain Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Neurons are intricately coupled in order to communicate and generate signals from human organs. Due to the complex nature of electroencephalogram (EEG) signals and MRI’s the epileptic seizures detection and brain related problems diagnosis becomes a challenging task. Computer based techniques and machine learning models are continuously giving their contributions to diagnose all such diseases in a better way than the normal process of diagnosis. Their performance may sometime degrade due to missing information, selection of poor classification model and unavailability of quality data that are used to train the models for better prediction. This research work is an attempt to epileptic seizures detection by using a multi focus dataset based on EEG signals and brain MRI. The key steps of this work are: feature extraction having two different streams i.e., EEG using wavelet transformation along with SVD-Entropy, and MRI using convolutional neural network (CNN), after extracting features from both streams, feature fusion is applied to generate feature vector used by support vector machine (SVM) to diagnose the epileptic seizures. From the experimental evaluation and results comparison with the current state-of-the-art techniques, it has been concluded that the performance of the proposed scheme is better than the existing models.

     

基于共空间模式和均匀流形投影的运动想象脑电信号识别方法

运动想象脑电信号的识别与分类问题一直是脑机领域研究的热点问题。针对此问题,使用区别传统线性降维方法的流形学习方法,将共空间模式算法与均匀流形投影算法相结合,充分利用了脑电信号中的非线性特征,对运动想象脑电信号进行了特征提取和数据降维,并使用KNN分类器进行了分类,对分类效果做出了评价;将降维前后的数据分类结果进行对比,说明了数据降维的优点和必要性;进一步讨论了降维结果在数据可视化方面的表现。发现经过数据降维的特征数据的可视化效果明显优于未经过降维的数据,进一步提出了一种基于共空间模式和均匀流形投影的新型脑电信号识别方法,对进行脑电信号深度剖析。挖掘脑电信号非线性特征提供了参考价值,同时也在数据流形分布以及数据可视化的角度为运动想象脑电信号识别提供了新思路。     

基于线性判别分析的决策融合脑电意识动态分类

脑电信号的识别与分类是脑机接口技术的热点研究问题,单一分类器不能很好利用特征以及分类器的适应性,导致识别的准确率很难进一步提高,基于线性判别分析的分类决策级融合策略,可用于提高脑-机接口系统的分类准确率。首先,通过分离出两种分类器的假性试验特征,从这两种方法中选择更有可能正确决策提高分类准确性;其次为了测量每个决策的不确定性,使用与所对应分类器的最大和第二大相关系数提取特征向量。基于这一思想,提出了一种新的决策选择器,该方法通过整合两种基于线性判别分析的算法选择更有可能是准确的决策,从而达到提高脑电信号分类准确度。实验结果表明,该方法通过与精度相近的算法相结合在运动想象数据分类上获得了较好的分类准确率。     

A novel two-band equilateral wavelet filter bank method for an automated detection of seizure from EEG signals

One can determinate the occurrence of epileptic seizure from the electroencephalogram (EEG) signal. Nonautomatic epilepsy detection is onerous and may be prone to error. They have augmented automated detection of seizure methods to attain accurate results. In view of this research work, we designed a frequency localized optimal filter bank to assess their effectiveness for automatic detection of seizures from EEG records. The basic preferred requirement of optimal filters relies on low bandwidth in the discipline of biomedical signal processing. This work provides a novel filter bank method called optimal equilateral wavelet filter bank (OEWFB) to satisfy the regularity criteria. This regularity constraint is being satisfied with semi-definite programming (SDP) framework, which specifically does nothing with any parameterization. Implementing the proposed filter banks, it disbands EEG signals into five wavelet sub-bands. The fuzzy entropy (FuEn), Renyi's entropy (ReEn), and the Kraskov entropy (KrEn) are being used for extracting the features from the wavelet sub-bands. The P values provide the distinctive ability of the features. Classification with 10-fold cross-validation for several classifiers such as quadratic discriminant, linear quadratic discriminant, K-nearest neighbor, support vector machine, logistic regression, and complex tree is utilized to classify the EEG signals into seizure vs non-seizure class and seizure-free vs seizure affected class. The proposed research work has gained the highest accuracy, specificity, sensitivity, and positive predictive values of 99.4%, 99%, 99.66%, and 99.35%, respectively, for class-1 (ABCD vs E). The performances of the proposed work using the Bonn EEG data set ensure validation concerning compatibility and robustness.     

Random forest and rotation forest ensemble methods for classification of epileptic EEG signals based on improved 1D‐LBP feature extraction

In this study, an efficient method for extracting and selecting features of unrefined Electroencephalogram (EEG) signals according to the one‐dimensional local binary pattern (1D‐LBP) is presented. Considering that taking a correct decision on various issues particularly in the field of diagnosing diseases, such as epilepsy, is of paramount importance, a functional approach is designed to extract the optimal features of EEG signals. The proposed method is comprised of two main steps: First, extraction and selection of features is performed based on a novel improved 1D‐LBP model followed by data normalization through principal component analysis (PCA); as combining 1D‐LBP neighboring models and PCA (1D‐LBP^c2p) method. The second step includes classification using two of the best ensemble classification algorithms, that is, random forest and rotation forest. A comparative evaluation is performed between the proposed methods and 13 distinct reported approaches including uniform and non‐uniform 1D‐LBP. The results are demonstrating that the combining method presented in our approaches has superiority along with efficiency by providing higher accuracy compared to the other models and classifiers. The proposed method in this paper can be considered as a new method for feature extraction and selection of other kinds of EEG signals and data sets.     

基于GST-ECNN的运动想象脑电信号识别方法

在对脑电信号的解码研究中,存在着现有时频分析方法对高频信号处理能力有限,多通道信号信息冗余,常用卷积神经网络分类器ReLU激活函数受学习速率的影响较大,对不同层采用相同的正则化很难获得满意结果等问题。为此,提出了一种基于广义S变换特征提取和增强卷积神经网络分类相结合的方法,同时提出一种结合Relief算法和向前选择搜索策略的包裹式方法进行通道选择。结果表明,提出的方法利用较少的信号通道,具有更强的特征提取和分类的能力,在第Ⅳ届BCI的数据集I上取得最高98.44±1.5%的分类准确率,高于其他现有算法。该方法良好的分类性能不仅减少了计算消耗,也有效提高了分类准确率,对脑电信号特征提取和分类具有一定的参考意义。     

Picture-Induced EEG Signal Classification Based on CVC Emotion Recognition System

Emotion recognition systems are helpful in human–machine interactions and Intelligence Medical applications. Electroencephalogram (EEG) is closely related to the central nervous system activity of the brain. Compared with other signals, EEG is more closely associated with the emotional activity. It is essential to study emotion recognition based on EEG information. In the research of emotion recognition based on EEG, it is a common problem that the results of individual emotion classification vary greatly under the same scheme of emotion recognition, which affects the engineering application of emotion recognition. In order to improve the overall emotion recognition rate of the emotion classification system, we propose the CSP_VAR_CNN (CVC) emotion recognition system, which is based on the convolutional neural network (CNN) algorithm to classify emotions of EEG signals. Firstly, the emotion recognition system using common spatial patterns (CSP) to reduce the EEG data, then the standardized variance (VAR) is selected as the parameter to form the emotion feature vectors. Lastly, a 5-layer CNN model is built to classify the EEG signal. The classification results show that this emotion recognition system can better the overall emotion recognition rate: the variance has been reduced to 0.0067, which is a decrease of 64% compared to that of the CSP_VAR_SVM (CVS) system. On the other hand, the average accuracy reaches 69.84%, which is 0.79% higher than that of the CVS system. It shows that the overall emotion recognition rate of the proposed emotion recognition system is more stable, and its emotion recognition rate is higher.     

基于声发射信号EMD-WPD特征融合的航天器在轨泄漏辨识方法

长期运行在空间环境中的航天器可能由于撞击、振动、老化等因素而发生气体泄漏,在轨泄漏辨识对航天器安全保障具有重要意义.提出了一种基于声发射信号经验模态分解(empirical mode decomposition,EMD)和小波包分解(wavelet packet decomposition,WPD)特征融合的航天器泄漏...     

An automatic channel selection method based on the standard deviation of wavelet coefficients for motor imagery based brain–computer interfacing

The redundant data in multichannel electroencephalogram (EEG) signals significantly reduces the performance of brain–computer interface (BCI) systems. By removing redundant channels, a channel selection strategy increases the classification accuracy of BCI systems. In this work, a novel channel selection method (stdWC) based on the standard deviation of wavelet coefficients across channels is proposed to identify Motor Imagery (MI) based EEG signals. The wavelet coefficients are calculated by employing a Continuous Wavelet Transform (CWT) filter bank to decompose each trial from the EEG channel. The wavelet coefficient's standard deviation values are obtained across the channels, and these values are then sorted to determine the EEG channels with the highest standard deviation values. The channels with the largest wavelet coefficient divergence are chosen. MI trials are then spatially filtered with the Common Spatial Pattern (CSP), and CWT filter bank-based 2D images are generated from the spatially filtered trials. These images are then classified using a unique nine-layered convolutional neural network (CNN) model that combines two feature maps acquired with differing filter sizes. The proposed framework (stdWC-CSP-CNN) is evaluated using kappa score and classification accuracy on two publically accessible datasets (BCI Competition III dataset IVa and BCI Competition IV dataset 2a). The suggested framework achieved a mean test classification accuracy of 88.8% for dataset IVa from BCI Competition III and 75.03% for dataset 2a from BCI Competition IV, according to the results. The proposed channel selection method outperforms the other channel selection methods examined, according to the results. By rejecting redundant channels, the whole framework can improve the performance of MI-based BCIs.     

Evolutionary Algorithsm with Machine Learning Based Epileptic Seizure Detection Model

Machine learning (ML) becomes a familiar topic among decision makers in several domains, particularly healthcare. Effective design of ML models assists to detect and classify the occurrence of diseases using healthcare data. Besides, the parameter tuning of the ML models is also essential to accomplish effective classification results. This article develops a novel red colobuses monkey optimization with kernel extreme learning machine (RCMO-KELM) technique for epileptic seizure detection and classification. The proposed RCMO-KELM technique initially extracts the chaotic, time, and frequency domain features in the actual EEG signals. In addition, the min-max normalization approach is employed for the pre-processing of the EEG signals. Moreover, KELM model is used for the detection and classification of epileptic seizures utilizing EEG signal. Furthermore, the RCMO technique was utilized for the optimal parameter tuning of the KELM technique in such a way that the overall detection outcomes can be considerably enhanced. The experimental result analysis of the RCMO-KELM technique has been examined using benchmark dataset and the results are inspected under several aspects. The comparative result analysis reported the better outcomes of the RCMO-KELM technique over the recent approaches with the of 0.956.     

Wireless and batteryless biomedical microsystem for neural recording and epilepsy suppression based on brain focal cooling

This work presents a biomedical microsystem with a wireless radiofrequency (RF)-powered electronics and versatile sensors/actuators for use in nanomedicinal diagnosis and therapy. The cooling of brain tissue has the potential to reduce the frequency and severity of epilepsy. Miniaturised spiral coils as a wireless power module with low-dropout linear regulator circuit convert RF signals into a DC voltage, can be implanted without a battery in monitoring free behaviour. A thermoelectric (TE) cooler is an actuator that is employed to cool down brain tissue to suppress epilepsy. Electroencephalogram (EEG) electrodes and TE coolers are integrated to form module that is placed inside the head of a rat and fastened with a bio-compatible material. EEG signals are used to identify waveforms associated with epilepsy and are measured using readout circuits. The wireless part of the presented design achieves a low quiescent current and line/load regulation and high antenna/current efficiency with thermal protection to avoid damage to the implanted tissue. Epilepsy is suppressed by reducing the temperature to reduce the duration of this epileptic episode. Related characterisations demonstrate that the proposed design can be adopted in an effective nanomedicine microsystem.     

Multi-View & Transfer Learning for Epilepsy Recognition Based on EEG Signals

Epilepsy is a central nervous system disorder in which brain activity becomes abnormal. Electroencephalogram (EEG) signals, as recordings of brain activity, have been widely used for epilepsy recognition. To study epileptic EEG signals and develop artificial intelligence (AI)-assist recognition, a multi-view transfer learning (MVTL-LSR) algorithm based on least squares regression is proposed in this study. Compared with most existing multi-view transfer learning algorithms, MVTL-LSR has two merits: (1) Since traditional transfer learning algorithms leverage knowledge from different sources, which poses a significant risk to data privacy. Therefore, we develop a knowledge transfer mechanism that can protect the security of source domain data while guaranteeing performance. (2) When utilizing multi-view data, we embed view weighting and manifold regularization into the transfer framework to measure the views’ strengths and weaknesses and improve generalization ability. In the experimental studies, 12 different simulated multi-view & transfer scenarios are constructed from epileptic EEG signals licensed and provided by the University of Bonn, Germany. Extensive experimental results show that MVTL-LSR outperforms baselines. The source code will be available on .     

A fuzzy logic‐based meningioma tumor detection in magnetic resonance brain images using CANFIS and U‐Net CNN classification

This article develops a methodology for meningioma brain tumor detection process using fuzzy logic based enhancement and co‐active adaptive neuro fuzzy inference system and U‐Net convolutional neural network classification methods. The proposed meningioma tumor detection process consists of the following stages as, enhancement, feature extraction, and classifications. The enhancement of the source brain image is done using fuzzy logic and then dual tree‐complex wavelet transform is applied to this enhanced image at different levels of scale. The features are computed from the decomposed sub band images and these features are further classified using CANFIS classification method which identifies the meningioma brain image from nonmeningioma brain image. The performance of the proposed meningioma brain tumor detection and segmentation system is analyzed in terms of sensitivity, specificity, segmentation accuracy, and Dice coefficient index with detection rate.     

基于SST时频图纹理特征的供输弹系统故障诊断

对于供输弹系统早期故障中信号成分复杂,故障征兆难以识别的问题,提出了基于同步压缩变换(SST)时频图纹理特征的故障诊断方法。使用EEMD方法对供输弹系统振动信号进行预处理,对分解的分量进行相关系数运算,选取与原始信号相关系数大的前4层分量对信号进行重构,达到了一定的降噪效果;接着利用供输弹系统不同状态的信号通过同步压缩变换时频分析,得到反映不同运行状态的二维时频图像,并进行灰度化处理;利用灰度共生矩阵法与灰度梯度共生矩阵,对其进行纹理特征的提取,为与传统方法做对比,提取了信号经EEMD分解后,与原始信号相关系数大的前4层分量的能量百分比作为特征;使用基于核的模糊C均值聚类,对供输弹系统三种不同状态振动信号的图像纹理特征和能量百分比特征进行分类识别,并与模糊C均值聚类进行对比。实验结果表明,该方法能有效地对自动供输弹系统早期故障进行识别,且识别正确率达91.21%。     

Optimal channel and frequency band-based feature selection for motor imagery electroencephalogram classification

Common spatial pattern (CSP) is a widely adopted method for electroencephalogram (EEG) feature extraction in brain-computer interface (BCI) based on motor imagery. Bandpass-filtering EEG into several subbands related to brain activity tasks is an effective approach to improve the performance of CSP based algorithm. However, this approach tends to suffer the over-fitting problem because of the increase in feature dimension. Therefore, we proposed an optimal channel and frequency band-based CSP feature selection method in this paper. Firstly, the correlation coefficient was calculated to select the optimal channels, and these channels were bandpass-filtered into multiple overlapping subbands. The subbands with higher power spectrum density were chosen for CSP feature extraction. Next, the pair-wise relevance was utilized to remove subband features with less difference. And then the screened subband features were combined with features extracted from the broadband signal. The Fisher ratio was exploited to carry out further feature selection. Finally, a support vector machine (SVM) was trained to classify the selected CSP features. An experimental study was implemented on BCI competition III dataset IVa and BCI competition IV dataset 1. The average classification accuracy reached 89.33% and 84.08%, which indicated the rationality and effectiveness of the proposed method.