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Epilepsy is one of the most serious neurological diseases, affecting 1-2% of the world's population. The diagnosis of epilepsy depends heavily on the recognition of epileptic waves, i.e., disordered electrical brainwave activity in the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-26 Junru Chen , Yang Yang , Tao Yu , Yingying Fan , Xiaolong Mo , Carl Yang

Inferring strength and direction of interactions from electroencephalographic (EEG) recordings is of crucial importance to improve our understanding of dynamical interdependencies underlying various physiologic and pathophysiologic…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2016-10-07 Klaus Lehnertz , Henning Dickten

Epilepsy is a disorder of the nervous system that can affect people of any age group. With roughly 50 million people worldwide diagnosed with the disorder, it is one of the most common neurological disorders. The EEG is an indispensable…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2022-02-21 Niamh McCallan , Scot Davidson , Kok Yew Ng , Pardis Biglarbeigi , Dewar Finlay , Boon Leong Lan , James McLaughlin

Stationary points embedded in the derivatives are often critical for a model to be interpretable and may be considered as key features of interest in many applications. We propose a semiparametric Bayesian model to efficiently infer the…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-06-11 Cheng-Han Yu , Meng Li , Colin Noe , Simon Fischer-Baum , Marina Vannucci

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

Epileptic seizure forecasting, combined with the delivery of preventative therapies, holds the potential to greatly improve the quality of life for epilepsy patients and their caregivers. Forecasting seizures could prevent some potentially…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-18 Nhan Duy Truong , Yikai Yang , Christina Maher , Armin Nikpour , Omid Kavehei

Implantable, closed-loop devices for automated early detection and stimulation of epileptic seizures are promising treatment options for patients with severe epilepsy that cannot be treated with traditional means. Most approaches for early…

Background and Objectives: Many biological processes are modulated by rhythms on circadian and multidien timescales. In focal epilepsy, various seizure features, such as spread and duration, can change from one seizure to the next within…

This article introduces a nonparametric approach to spectral analysis of a high-dimensional multivariate nonstationary time series. The procedure is based on a novel frequency-domain factor model that provides a flexible yet parsimonious…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-10-29 Zeda Li , Ori Rosen , Fabio Ferrarelli , Robert T. Krafty

Over the past few decades, electroencephalography (EEG) monitoring has become a pivotal tool for diagnosing neurological disorders, particularly for detecting seizures. Epilepsy, one of the most prevalent neurological diseases worldwide,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Andrea Pollastro , Francesco Isgrò , Roberto Prevete

Epileptic seizure forecasting is a clinically important yet challenging problem in epilepsy research. Existing approaches predominantly rely on neural signals such as electroencephalography (EEG), which require specialized equipment and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Mingkai Zhai , Wei Wang , Zongsheng Li , Quanying Liu

In this study, we present a deep learning framework that learns complex spatio-temporal correlation structures of EEG signals through a Spatio-Temporal Attention Network (STAN) for accurate predictions of onset of seizures for Epilepsy…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-06 Zan Li , Kyongmin Yeo , Wesley Gifford , Lara Marcuse , Madeline Fields , Bülent Yener

This article introduces a nonparametric approach to multivariate time-varying power spectrum analysis. The procedure adaptively partitions a time series into an unknown number of approximately stationary segments, where some spectral…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-06-28 Zeda Li , Robert T. Krafty

Epilepsy is one of the most occurring neurological disease globally emerged back in 4000 BC. It is affecting around 50 million people of all ages these days. The trait of this disease is recurrent seizures. In the past few decades, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Virender Ranga , Shivam Gupta , Jyoti Meena , Priyansh Agrawal

Background Seizure severity can change from one seizure to the next within individual people with epilepsy. It is unclear if and how seizure severity is modulated over longer timescales. Characterising seizure severity variability over time…

Objective: This work investigates the hypothesis that focal seizures can be predicted using scalp electroencephalogram (EEG) data. Our first aim is to learn features that distinguish between the interictal and preictal regions. The second…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-30 Haidar Khan , Lara Marcuse , Madeline Fields , Kalina Swann , Bülent Yener

Epilepsy affects nearly 1% of the global population, of which two thirds can be treated by anti-epileptic drugs and a much lower percentage by surgery. Diagnostic procedures for epilepsy and monitoring are highly specialized and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-20 Tennison Liu , Nhan Duy Truong , Armin Nikpour , Luping Zhou , Omid Kavehei

In clinical neuroscience, epileptic seizures have been associated with the sudden emergence of coupled activity across the brain. The resulting functional networks - in which edges indicate strong enough coupling between brain regions - are…

Applications · Statistics 2021-02-25 Xiaojing Zhu , Heather Shappell , Mark A. Kramer , Catherine J. Chu , Eric D. Kolaczyk

Epilepsy is a chronic, noncommunicable brain disorder, and sudden seizure onsets can significantly impact patients' quality of life and health. However, wearable seizure-predicting devices are still limited, partly due to the bulky size of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-22 Ruifeng Zheng , Cong Chen , Shuang Wang , Yiming Liu , Lin You , Jindong Lu , Ruizhe Zhu , Guodao Zhang , Kejie Huang

A novel non-stationarity visualization tool known as StationPlot is developed for deciphering the chaotic behavior of a dynamical time series. A family of analytic measures enumerating geometrical aspects of the non-stationarity & degree of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-11-13 Sawon Pratiher , Subhankar Chattoraj , Rajdeep Mukherjee