Modulation frequency analysis of seizures in neonatal EEG

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Abstract

Detection of seizures in neonatal EEG signal represents a formidable challenge for clinicians in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). Seizure morphology is known to evolve both temporally and spatially with a similar evolution also observed in the frequency domain. The modulation frequency analysis which is widely used in speech processing is used here to extract the frequency-localized spectral dynamics of the neonatal EEG and investigate their discriminative capabilities in the context of neonatal seizure detection. This study suggests that the spectral dynamics of neonatal EEG are more informative than short-term spectral characteristics. It is shown that the seizure-relevant components of the modulation spectrogram are found in the vicinity of 0.4Hz. Modulation frequency analysis represents a new insight into the EEG signal which can uncover the underlying time-structural organization of the neonatal EEG signal and therefore improve clinical understanding of the dynamic processes involved.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2014 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2014
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages5879-5883
Number of pages5
ISBN (Print)9781479928927
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2014
Event2014 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2014 - Florence, Italy
Duration: 4 May 20149 May 2014

Publication series

NameICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings
ISSN (Print)1520-6149

Conference

Conference2014 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2014
Country/TerritoryItaly
CityFlorence
Period4/05/149/05/14

Keywords

  • electroencephalography
  • epilepsy
  • Modulation frequency
  • neonatal EEG
  • neonatal seizures

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