Automated classification of epileptic seizures using modified one-dimensional convolution neural network based on empirical mode decomposition with high accuracy

Abstract

Background and objectives: The method of electroencephalography (EEG) is frequently employed to identify epileptic seizures. Visually inspecting nonlinear EEG waves is a very difficult and time-consuming process. Therefore, to help with patients' long-term assessment and treatment, an effective automatic detection system is required. Traditional methods of machine learning require step of feature extraction by manual which leads to time consuming, for it we modified in one-Dimensional convolution neural network architecture for features extraction and features dimension reduction for makes the classification low computational complexity and more accurate.

Methods: In this study, we did a comparison between three methods for classification: support vector machine, artificial neural network and one-dimensional convolution neural network. We used the stationary wavelet transform with mother function symlet2 for denoising EEG signal and used the empirical mode decomposition for signal decomposition. After that, features extraction step is necessary when used the support vector machine and artificial neural network, but when use the convolution neural network the features are extracted by layers.

Results: The highest value of a classification accuracy was 100%, and a sensitivity 100%, a specificity 100%, and a precision 100%, which appeared five times when using the one-dimensional convolution neural network after empirical mode decomposition method.

Conclusions: The efficiency of the three methods has been compared and evaluated by using four metrics: Accuracy, Sensitivity, specificity, and Precision, and the result showed the one-dimensional convolution neural network is the best method for classification with empirical mode decomposition.