Applying nonlinear measures to the brain rhythms: an effective method for epilepsy diagnosis

Background Epilepsy is a neurological disorder from which almost 50 million people have been suffering. These statistics indicate the importance of epilepsy diagnosis. Electroencephalogram (EEG) signals analysis is one of the most common methods for epilepsy characterization; hence, various strategies were applied to classify epileptic EEGs. Methods In this paper, four different nonlinear features such as Fractal dimensions including Higuchi method (HFD) and Katz method (KFD), Hurst exponent, and L-Z complexity measure were extracted from EEGs and their frequency sub-bands. The features were ranked later by implementing Relieff algorithm. The ranked features were applied sequentially to three different classifiers (MLPNN, Linear SVM, and RBF SVM). Results According to the dataset used for this study, there are five classification problems named ABCD/E, AB/CD/E, A/D/E, A/E, and D/E. In all cases, MLPNN was the most accurate classifier. Its performances for mentioned classification problems were 99.91%, 98.19%, 98.5%, 100% and 99.84%, respectively. Conclusion The results demonstrate that KFD is the highest-ranking feature; In addition, beta and theta sub-bands are the most important frequency bands because, for all cases, the top features were KFDs extracted from beta and theta sub-bands. Moreover, high levels of accuracy have been obtained just by using these two features which reduce the complexity of the classification.

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