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During clinical treatment for epilepsy, the area of the brain thought to be responsible for pathological activity is identified. This identification is typically performed through visual assessment of EEG recordings; however, this is time…

Medically uncontrolled epileptic seizures affect nearly 15 million people worldwide, resulting in enormous economic and psychological burdens. Treatment of medically refractory epilepsy is essential for patients to achieve remission,…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-12-25 Yaoyue Wang , Arian Ashourvan , Guilherme Ramos , Paul Bogdan , Emily Pereira

Prediction of seizure before they occur is vital for bringing normalcy to the lives of patients. Researchers employed machine learning methods using hand-crafted features for seizure prediction. However, ML methods are too complicated to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-02 Khansa Rasheed , Junaid Qadir , Terence J. O'Brien , Levin Kuhlmann , Adeel Razi

Epilepsy is a prevalent neurological disorder globally, impacting around 50 million people \cite{WHO_epilepsy_50million}. Epileptic seizures result from sudden abnormal electrical activity in the brain, which can be read as sudden and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Mohammed Guhdar , Ramadhan J. Mstafa , Abdulhakeem O. Mohammed

Focal epilepsy is a devastating neurological disorder that affects an overwhelming number of patients worldwide, many of whom prove resistant to medication. The efficacy of current innovative technologies for the treatment of these patients…

One of epileptology's fundamental aims is the formulation of a universal, internally consistent seizure definition. To assess this aim's feasibility, three signal analysis methods were applied to a seizure time series and performance…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2011-11-15 Ivan Osorio , Alexey Lyubushin , Didier Sornette

Epilepsy is a disease in which frequent seizures occur due to abnormal activity of neurons. Patients affected by this disease can be treated with the help of medicines or surgical procedures. However, both of these methods are not quite…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2020-04-20 Syed Muhammad Usman , Shahzad Latif , Arshad Beg

Magnetoencephalography (MEG) allows the non-invasive detection of interictal epileptiform discharges (IEDs). Clinical MEG analysis in epileptic patients traditionally relies on the visual identification of IEDs, which is time consuming and…

To predict an epileptic event means the ability to determine in advance the time of the seizure with the highest possible accuracy. A correct prediction benchmark for epilepsy events in clinical applications is a typical problem in…

Applications · Statistics 2020-06-03 Antonio Quintero-Rincon , Carlos D'Giano , Marcelo Risk

Neurologists typically identify epileptic seizures from electroencephalograms (EEGs) by visual inspection. This process is often time-consuming, especially for EEG recordings that last hours or days. To expedite the process, a reliable,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-23 Wei Yan Peh , Prasanth Thangavel , Yuanyuan Yao , John Thomas , Yee Leng Tan , Justin Dauwels

Epilepsy is one of the most common neurological disorders. This disease requires reliable and efficient seizure detection methods. Electroencephalography (EEG) is the gold standard for seizure monitoring, but its manual analysis is a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-17 Annika Stiehl , Nicolas Weeger , Christian Uhl , Dominic Bechtold , Nicole Ille , Stefan Geißelsöder

Objectives: This study examines human Photoplethysmogram (PPG) along with Electrocardiogram (ECG) signals to study cardiac autonomic imbalance in epileptic seizures. The significance and the prevalence of changes in PPG morphological…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-12 Seyede Mahya Safavi , Ninaz Valisharifabad , Robert Sabino , Hsinchung Chen , Ali HeydariGorji , Demi Tran , Jack Lin , Beth Lopour , Pai H. Chou

Epilepsy is a chronic neurological disorder affecting more than 50 million people globally. An epileptic seizure acts like a temporary shock to the neuronal system, disrupting normal electrical activity in the brain. Epilepsy is frequently…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2021-01-26 Matheus B. Guerrero , Raphaël Huser , Hernando Ombao

In current clinical practice, electroencephalograms (EEG) are reviewed and analyzed by well-trained neurologists to provide supports for therapeutic decisions. The way of manual reviewing is labor-intensive and error prone. Automatic and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-07 Xinghua Yao , Qiang Cheng , Guo-Qiang Zhang

This work introduces a new approach to the Epileptic Spasms (ESES) detection based on the EEG signals using Vision Transformers (ViT). Classic ESES detection approaches have usually been performed with manual processing or conventional…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2024-12-18 Wei Gong , Yaru Li

The detection of interictal epileptiform discharge (IED) is crucial for the diagnosis of epilepsy, but automated methods often lack interpretability. This study proposes IED-RAG, an explainable multimodal framework for joint IED detection…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-17 Yu Zhu , Jiayang Guo , Jun Jiang , Peipei Gu , Xin Shu , Duo Chen

Hyperdimensional computing is a promising novel paradigm for low-power embedded machine learning. It has been applied on different biomedical applications, and particularly on epileptic seizure detection. Unfortunately, due to differences…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-20 Una Pale , Tomas Teijeiro , David Atienza

Long-term monitoring of patients with epilepsy presents a challenging problem from the engineering perspective of real-time detection and wearable devices design. It requires new solutions that allow continuous unobstructed monitoring and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-11 Una Pale , Tomas Teijeiro , David Atienza

Intracranial EEG (iEEG) is the gold standard technique for epileptogenic zone (EZ) localisation, but requires a hypothesis of which tissue is epileptogenic, guided by qualitative analysis of seizure semiology and other imaging modalities…

Background: Investigation of the functioning of the brain in living systems has been a major effort amongst scientists and medical practitioners. Amongst the various disorder of the brain, epilepsy has drawn the most attention because this…

Medical Physics · Physics 2009-08-03 Md. Nurujjaman , Ramesh Naryanan , A. N. Sekar Iyengar