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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

Epilepsy is one of the most common neurological disorders that greatly impair patient' daily lives. Traditional epileptic diagnosis relies on tedious visual screening by neurologists from lengthy EEG recording that requires the presence of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Forrest Sheng Bao , Donald Yu-Chun Lie , Yuanlin Zhang

We propose VISP: Volatility Informed Stochastic Projection, an adaptive regularization method that leverages gradient volatility to guide stochastic noise injection in deep neural networks. Unlike conventional techniques that apply uniform…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Tanvir Islam

Epilepsy affects more than 50 million people worldwide, making it one of the world's most prevalent neurological diseases. The main symptom of epilepsy is seizures, which occur abruptly and can cause serious injury or death. The ability to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-06 Zakary Georgis-Yap , Milos R. Popovic , Shehroz S. Khan

An accurate and efficient epileptic seizure onset detection can significantly benefit patients. Traditional diagnostic methods, primarily relying on electroencephalograms (EEGs), often result in cumbersome and non-portable solutions, making…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Yankun Xu , Junzhe Wang , Yun-Hsuan Chen , Jie Yang , Wenjie Ming , Shuang Wang , Mohamad Sawan

A seizure tracking system is crucial for monitoring and evaluating epilepsy treatments. Caretaker seizure diaries are used in epilepsy care today, but clinical seizure monitoring may miss seizures. Monitoring devices that can be worn may be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Zag ElSayed , Murat Ozer , Nelly Elsayed , Ahmed Abdelgawad

Predicting full-field physics through the real-time virtual sensing of engineering systems can enhance limited physical sensors but often requires sparse-to-dense reconstruction, complex multiphysics, and highly irregular geometries as well…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-21 William Howes , Farid Ahmed , Kazuma Kobayashi , Souvik Chakraborty , Syed Bahauddin Alam

The task of learning a diffusion-based neural sampler for drawing samples from an unnormalized target distribution can be viewed as a stochastic optimal control problem on path measures. However, the training of neural samplers can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Wei Guo , Jaemoo Choi , Yuchen Zhu , Molei Tao , Yongxin Chen

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

Spiking Neural Networks (SNN) are the so-called third generation of neural networks which attempt to more closely match the functioning of the biological brain. They inherently encode temporal data, allowing for training with less energy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-17 Chethan M. Parameshwara , Simin Li , Cornelia Fermüller , Nitin J. Sanket , Matthew S. Evanusa , Yiannis Aloimonos

Epilepsy is a neurological brain disorder which life threatening and gives rise to recurrent seizures that are unprovoked. It occurs due to the abnormal chemical changes in our brain. Over the course of many years, studies have been…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-13 Muhammad Shoaib Farooq , Aimen Zulfiqar , Shamyla Riaz

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

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) are posited as a computationally efficient and biologically plausible alternative to conventional neural architectures, with their core computational framework primarily using the leaky integrate-and-fire…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Malyaban Bal , Abhronil Sengupta

Accurate neuronavigation is critical for effective transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), as stimulation outcomes depend directly on precise coil placement. Existing neuronavigation systems are often costly, complex, and prone to tracking…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Xuyi Hu , Ke Ma , Siwei Liu , Per Ola Kristensson , Stefan Goetz

Objective: This paper proposes a novel type of stimulus in the shape of sinusoidal gratings displayed with an imperceptibly high-frequency motion. The stimulus has been designed for use in BCI (Brain Computer Interface) applications that…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-05-20 Bartu Atabek , Efecan Yilmaz , Cengiz Acarturk , Murat Perit Cakir

Background: Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is a powerful tool to investigate neurophysiology of the human brain and treat brain disorders. Traditionally, therapeutic TMS has been applied in a one-size-fits-all approach,…

Encoding models are used for predicting brain activity in response to sensory stimuli with the objective of elucidating how sensory information is represented in the brain. Encoding models typically comprise a nonlinear transformation of…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2017-03-13 Umut Güçlü , Marcel A. J. van Gerven

Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is a popular method for the noninvasive stimulation of neurons in the brain. It has become a standard instrument in experimental brain research and is approved for a range of diagnostic and…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-12-27 Max Koehler , Stefan Goetz

Electromagnetic stimulation of the human brain is a key tool for the neurophysiological characterization and diagnosis of several neurological disorders. Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is one procedure that is commonly used…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-04 Essam A. Rashed , Jose Gomez-Tames , Akimasa Hirata

Recent advances in neurotechnologies and decades of scientific and clinical research have made closed-loop electrical neuromodulation one of the most promising avenues for the treatment of drug-resistant epilepsy (DRE), a condition that…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-30 Gagan Acharya , Erfan Nozari