Automatic Seizure Detection Using Modified CNN Architecture and Activation Layer

An epileptology expert must visually inspect the EEG to identify abnormal neural activity, which is time-consuming and subject to human errors. The capability of convolution neural networks (CNN) to extract visuospatial features and learn from these discriminative features makes them useful for this task. This paper presents seizure classification based on long-term EEGs using CNN. After filtering, the scalogram is plotted using a 1-second window each. A recently published dataset (TUSZ v1.5.2) was used for the performance evaluation of various CNN-based deep neural networks. The best accuracy obtained for GoogLeNet and AlexNet is 95.88%, and 95.79% respectively with 50 epochs and 32 mini-batch sizes by using the SWISH activation function. The proposed hybrid architecture (AG86) for epoch 50 with mini-batch size 32 has shown the best testing results in terms of accuracy (94.98%) as compared to the SqueezeNet (93.19%), GoogLeNet (92.65%), and AlexNet (94.44%). Similar performance was observed using metrics specificity, sensitivity, Mathew correlation coefficient (MCC), and F1 score. A general inference based on evaluation can be drawn as the proposed hybrid architecture (AG86) showed better test results compared to pre-trained CNN models. Moreover, by replacing ReLU with the SWISH activation function, the performance of AlexNet and GoogLeNet improved.