Classification of Epileptic Electroencephalograms Using Time-Frequency and Back Propagation Methods

Today,electroencephalography is used to measure brain activity by creating signals that are viewed on a monitor.These signals are frequently used to obtain information about brain neurons and may detect disorders that affect the brain,such as epilepsy.Electroencephalogram(EEG)signals are however prone to artefacts.These artefacts must be removed to obtain accurate and meaningful signals.Currently,computer-aided systems have been used for this purpose.These systems provide high computing power,problem-specific development,and other advantages.In this study,a new clinical decision support system was developed for individuals to detect epileptic seizures using EEG signals.Comprehensive classification results were obtained for the extracted filtered features from the time-frequency domain.The classification accuracies of the time-frequency features obtained from discrete continuous transform(DCT),fractional Fourier transform(FrFT),and Hilbert transform(HT)are compared.Artificial neural networks(ANN)were applied,and back propagation(BP)was used as a learning method.Many studies in the literature describe a single BP algorithm.In contrast,we looked at several BP algorithms including gradient descent with momentum(GDM),scaled conjugate gradient(SCG),and gradient descent with adaptive learning rate(GDA).The most successful algorithm was tested using simulations made on three separate datasets(DCT_EEG,FrFT_EEG,and HT_EEG)that make up the input data.The HT algorithm was the most successful EEG feature extractor in terms of classification accuracy rates in each EEG dataset and had the highest referred accuracy rates of the algorithms.As a result,HT_EEG gives the highest accuracy for all algorithms,and the highest accuracy of 87.38%was produced by the SCG algorithm.

Epilepsy Radiology Reports Classification Using Deep Learning Networks

The automatic and accurate classification of Magnetic Resonance Imaging(MRI)radiology report is essential for the analysis and interpretation epilepsy and non-epilepsy.Since the majority of MRI radiology reports are unstructured,the manual information extraction is time-consuming and requires specific expertise.In this paper,a comprehensive method is proposed to classify epilepsy and non-epilepsy real brain MRI radiology text reports automatically.This method combines the Natural Language Processing technique and statisticalMachine Learning methods.122 realMRI radiology text reports(97 epilepsy,25 non-epilepsy)are studied by our proposed method which consists of the following steps:(i)for a given text report our systems first cleans HTML/XML tags,tokenize,erase punctuation,normalize text,(ii)then it converts into MRI text reports numeric sequences by using indexbased word encoding,(iii)then we applied the deep learning models that are uni-directional long short-term memory(LSTM)network,bidirectional long short-term memory(BiLSTM)network and convolutional neural network(CNN)for the classifying comparison of the data,(iv)finally,we used 70%of used for training,15%for validation,and 15%for test observations.Unlike previous methods,this study encompasses the following objectives:(a)to extract significant text features from radiologic reports of epilepsy disease;(b)to ensure successful classifying accuracy performance to enhance epilepsy data attributes.Therefore,our study is a comprehensive comparative study with the epilepsy dataset obtained from numeric sequences by using index-based word encoding method applied for the deep learning models.The traditionalmethod is numeric sequences by using index-based word encoding which has been made for the first time in the literature,is successful feature descriptor in the epilepsy data set.The BiLSTM network has shown a promising performance regarding the accuracy rates.We show that the larger sizedmedical text reports can be analyzed by our proposed method.