Effective Epileptic Seizure Detection Using Enhanced Salp Swarm Algorithm-based Long Short-Term Memory Network

In this manuscript, a deep learning method is implemented for automatic detection of abnormal and normal Electroencephalogram (EEG) signals, especially for early diagnosis of Epileptic Seizure (ES) disease. Firstly, 8th order Butter Worth Filter (BWF) is applied for removing artifacts from Bern Barcelona (BB), Bonn University (BU), and Temple University Hospital (TUH) datasets. Next, the swarm decomposition method is employed for signal decomposition where it provides a significant frequency localization by separating the essential signal components from the denoised EEG signals. Then, the semantic feature extraction is performed for extracting feature values from the decomposed signals. The feature extraction includes the benefits like reduction in overfitting risk, accuracy improvement, and speed up the training process. Further, the extracted multidimensional feature values are reduced by proposing enhanced Salp Swarm Algorithm (SSA), where it selects optimum feature values for classification. The enhanced SSA uses Whale Optimization Algorithm (WOA) for identifying the potential feature values from the multi-dimensional feature space. Lastly, the selected features are fed to the Long Short Term Memory (LSTM) network for classifying abnormality and normality of seizures. The experimental results show that the enhanced SSA based LSTM network classifies abnormality and normality of seizure with classification accuracy of 97.84%, 99.32%, and 99.20% on the BU, BB, and TUH datasets.