DeepSOZ: A Robust Deep Model for Joint Temporal and Spatial Seizure Onset Localization from Multichannel EEG Data.

Abstract

We propose a robust deep learning framework to simultaneously detect and localize seizure activity from multichannel scalp EEG. Our model, called DeepSOZ, consists of a transformer encoder to generate global and channel-wise encodings. The global branch is combined with an LSTM for temporal seizure detection. In parallel, we employ attention-weighted multi-instance pooling of channel-wise encodings to predict the seizure onset zone. DeepSOZ is trained in a supervised fashion and generates high-resolution predictions on the order of each second (temporal) and EEG channel (spatial). We validate DeepSOZ via bootstrapped nested cross-validation on a large dataset of 120 patients curated from the Temple University Hospital corpus. As compared to baseline approaches, DeepSOZ provides robust overall performance in our multi-task learning setup. We also evaluate the intra-seizure and intra-patient consistency of DeepSOZ as a first step to establishing its trustworthiness for integration into the clinical workflow for epilepsy.