Automated Epileptic Seizure Detection of EEG Signals Using Machine Learning
摘要
Epilepsy is a chronic, incommunicable neuropsychiatric disorder marked by recurring epileptic seizures. Conventionally Electroencephalogram (EEG) is a test carried out by doctors for the diagnosis of epilepsy. It’s a prominent tool that measures electrical activity of brain by using electrodes attached to the patient’s scalp. These signals have complexity, noise, and non-linearity and produce voluminous data. The process of analyzing the EEG report manually is tedious and uncertain. This research article proposes an end-to-end solution to the problem using supervised machine learning techniques. The article is implemented on the Children’s Boston Hospital dataset that was rigorously studied on 23 subjects. The result for a ten-fold cross validation of the execution of the article is 82.72% for Random Forest and 62.76% for SVM. The experimental outcomes predict that the Random Forest shows better performance and has great potential in future epileptic detection studies.