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(Reference retrieved automatically from Web of Science through information on FAPESP grant and its corresponding number as mentioned in the publication by the authors.)

EEG signal classification for epilepsy diagnosis via optimum path forest - A systematic assessment

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Author(s):
Nunes, Thiago M. [1] ; Coelho, Andre L. V. [2] ; Lima, Clodoaldo A. M. [3] ; Papa, Joao P. [4] ; de Albuquerque, Victor Hugo C. [2]
Total Authors: 5
Affiliation:
[1] Univ Fortaleza, Ctr Ciencias Tecnol, Fortaleza, Ceara - Brazil
[2] Univ Fortaleza, Programa Posgrad Informat Aplicada, Fortaleza, Ceara - Brazil
[3] Univ Sao Paulo, Escola Artes Ciencias & Humanidades, Sao Paulo - Brazil
[4] Univ Estadual Paulista, Dept Ciencia Comp, Bauru, SP - Brazil
Total Affiliations: 4
Document type: Journal article
Source: Neurocomputing; v. 136, p. 103-123, JUL 20 2014.
Web of Science Citations: 42
Abstract

Epilepsy refers to a set of chronic neurological syndromes characterized by transient and unexpected electrical disturbances of the brain. The detailed analysis of the electroencephalogram (EEG) is one of the most influential steps for the proper diagnosis of this disorder. This work presents a systematic performance evaluation of the recently introduced optimum path forest (OPF) classifier when coping with the task of epilepsy diagnosis directly through EEG signal analysis. For this purpose, we have made extensive use of a benchmark dataset composed of five classes, whose full discrimination is very hard to achieve. Four types of wavelet functions and three well-known filter methods were considered for the tasks of feature extraction and selection, respectively. Moreover, support vector machines configured with radial basis function (SVM-RBF) kernel, multilayer perceptron neural networks (ANN-MLP), and Bayesian classifiers were used for comparison in terms of effectiveness and efficiency. Overall, the results evidence the outperformance of the OPF classifier in both types of criteria. Indeed, the OPF classifier was usually extremely fast, with average training/testing times much lower than those required by SVM-RBF and ANN-MLP. Moreover, when configured with Coiflets as feature extractors, the performance scores achieved by the OPF classifier include 89.2% as average accuracy and sensitivity/specificity values higher than 80% for all five classes. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. (AU)

FAPESP's process: 09/16206-1 - New trends on optimum-path forest-based pattern recognition
Grantee:João Paulo Papa
Support Opportunities: Research Grants - Young Investigators Grants