FPGA implementation of Epileptic Seizure detection based on DWT, PCA and Support Vector Machine

The study aims to establish an FPGA design model for epileptic seizures with discrete wavelet decomposition (DWT) and principal component analysis (PCA) to determine the optimum parameters of support vector machine (SVMs) for the EEG classification data. The FPGA Hardware implementation is described in this paper. Firstly, an optimized software-based medical diagnostic approach has been developed to determine the EEG class using only the variance calculated for each DWT level. This features extracted optimization leads to reduce the FPGA prototype size and to save energy consumption. Secondly, the proposed method has been designed and implemented on the Nexys 4 Artix 7 board using the Xilinx System Generator (XSG) for DSP. The performance evaluation of the proposed system has been made through two comparative studies, the first one, between the floating-point Matlab results and the fixed-point XSG results. The classification performances obtained from the proposed FPGA fixed-point implementation were compared to those obtained from the MATLAB floating-point. The second comparison was performed between the resulting performances and those obtained with the existing work in literature.