EEG based Epileptic Seizures Detection using Intrinsic Time-Scale Decomposition

Epilepsy is a type of neurological disorder that causes abnormal brain activities and creates epileptic seizures. Traditionally epileptic seizure prediction is realized with a visual examination of Electroencephalogram (EEG) signals. But this technique needs a long time EEG monitoring. So, the automatic epileptic seizures prediction schemes become a requirement at this point. This study proposes a method to classify epileptic seizures and normal EEG data by utilizing the Intrinsic Time-scale Decomposition (ITD)-based features. The dataset has been supplied from the database of the Epileptology Department of Bonn University. It contains 5 data groups A, B, C, D, E. The study aims to classify healthy and epileptic data, so data of groups A and E are used to perform evaluations of proposed methods. The EEG data are decomposed into Proper Rotation Components (PRCs) by ITD. The feature extraction methods are applied to the first five PRCs of each EEG data from healthy and epileptic individuals. These features are classified using K-Nearest Neighbors (KNN), Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA), Naive Bayes, Support Vector Machine (SVM) and Logistic Regression classifiers. The results demonstrated that the epileptic data is differentiated from normal data by applying the nonlinear ITD with outstanding classification performance.