Key result
Random Forest classifiers combined with PCA dimensionality reduction achieved up to 94.3% ± 5.3% accuracy in classifying absence from tonic-clonic seizures using single timeseries EEG data.
Why the study?
Seizure classification typically relies on full-scalp or intracranial EEG, but embedded wearable systems are constrained to recordings from only a few electrodes.
Can machine learning classifiers accurately classify absence from tonic-clonic seizures using scalp EEG reduced to a single timeseries per hemisphere?
Can machine learning classifiers accurately classify absence from tonic-clonic seizures using scalp EEG reduced to a single timeseries per hemisphere?
Reducing EEG signals to a single timeseries per hemisphere via PCA allows Random Forest classifiers to accurately distinguish seizure types, offering a viable approach for constrained wearable monitoring devices.
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Supports wearable EEG seizure classification; leaves open prospective validation before clinical adoption.
Seizure detection and seizure-type classification are best performed using intra-cranial or full-scalp electroencephalogram (EEG). In embedded wearable systems however, recordings from only a few electrodes are available, reducing the spatial resolution of the signals to a handful of timeseries at most. Taking this constraint into account, we tested the performance of multiple classifiers using a subset of the EEG recordings by selecting a single trace from the montage or performing a dimensionality reduction over each hemispherical space. Our results support that Random Forest (RF) classifiers lead most ef-ficient and stable classification performances over Support Vector Machines (SVM). Interestingly, tracking the feature importances using permutation tests reveals that classical EEG spectrum power bands display different rankings across the classifiers: low frequencies (delta, theta) are most important for SVMs while higher frequencies (alpha, gamma) are more relevant for RF and Decision Trees. We reach up to 94.3% ∓ 5.3% accuracy in classifying absence from tonic-clonic seizures using state-of-art sampling methods for unbalanced datasets and leave-patients-out fold cross-validation policy.
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Naze et al. (2021) studied Epilepsy (absence vs tonic-clonic seizures). Random Forest classifier with PCA dimensionality reduction vs. Support Vector Machines and other classifiers/preprocessing methods was evaluated on Classification accuracy for absence vs tonic-clonic seizures (94.3% ± 5.3%). Random Forest classifiers combined with PCA dimensionality reduction achieved up to 94.3% ± 5.3% accuracy in classifying absence from tonic-clonic seizures using single timeseries EEG data.
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