Online EEG channel weighting for detection of seizures in the neonate

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Abstract

A framework for online dynamic channel weighting is developed for the task of EEG-based neonatal seizure detection. The channel weights are computed on-the-fly by combining the up-to-now patient-specific history and the clinically-derived prior channel importance. These estimated time-varying weights are introduced within a Bayesian probabilistic framework to provide a channel-specific and thus patient-adaptive seizure classification scheme. Validation results on one of the largest clinical datasets of neonatal seizures confirm the utility of the proposed channel weighting for the SVM-based detector recently developed by this research group. Exploiting the channel weighting, the precision-recall area can be drastically increased (up to 25%) for the most difficult patients, with the average increase from 81.0% to 84.42%. It is also shown that the increase in performance with channel weighting is proportional to the time the patient is observed.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication33rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS 2011
Pages1447-1450
Number of pages4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2011
Event33rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS 2011 - Boston, MA, United States
Duration: 30 Aug 20113 Sep 2011

Publication series

NameProceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS
ISSN (Print)1557-170X

Conference

Conference33rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS 2011
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityBoston, MA
Period30/08/113/09/11

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