Automated quantification of spikes

Methods for rapid and objective quantification of interictal spikes in raw, unprocessed electroencephalogram (EEG) samples are scarce. We evaluated the accuracy of a tailored automated spike quantification algorithm. The automated quantification was compared with the quantification by two board-certified clinical neurophysiologists (gold-standard) in five steps: 1) accuracy in a single EEG channel (5 EEG samples), 2) accuracy in multiple EEG channels and across different stages of the sleep-wake cycles (75 EEG samples), 3) capacity to detect lateralization of spikes (6 EEG samples), 4) accuracy after application of a machine-learning mechanism (11 EEG samples), and 5) accuracy during wakefulness only (8 EEG samples). Our method was accurate during all stages of the sleep-wake cycle and improved after the application of the machine-learning mechanism. Spikes were correctly lateralized in all cases. Our automated method was accurate in quantifying and detecting the lateralization of interictal spikes in raw unprocessed EEG samples.

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