Assessing the feasibility of acoustic based seizure detection
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Author(s)
Kok, Xuen Hoong
Imtiaz, Syed Anas
Rodriguez Villegas, Esther
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
Objective: Long-term monitoring of epilepsy patients outside of hospital settings is impractical due to the complexity and costs associated with electroencephalogram (EEG) systems. Alternative sensing modalities that can acquire, and automatically interpret signals through easy-to-use wearable devices, are needed to help with at-home management of the disease. In this paper, a novel machine learning algorithm is presented for detecting epileptic seizures using acoustic physiological signals acquired from the neck using a wearable device. Methods: Acoustic signals from an existing database, were processed, to extract their Mel-frequency Cepstral Coefficients (MFCCs) which were used to train RUSBoost classifiers to identify ictal and non-ictal acoustic segments. A postprocessing stage was then applied to the segment classification results to identify seizures episodes. Results: Tested on 667 hours of acoustic data acquired from 15 patients with at least one seizure, the algorithm achieved a detection sensitivity of 88.1% (95% CI: 79%-97%) from a total of 36 seizures, out of which 24 had no motor manifestations, with a FPR of 0.83/h, and a median detection latency of -42s. Conclusion: The results demonstrated for the first time the ability to identify seizures using acoustic internal body signals acquired on the neck. Significance: The results of this paper validate the feasibility of using internal physiological sounds for seizure detection, which could potentially be of use for the development of novel, wearable, very simple to use, long term monitoring, or seizure detection systems; circumventing the practical limitations of EEG monitoring outside hospital settings, or systems based on sensing modalities that work on convulsive seizures only.
Date Issued
2022-01-21
Date Acceptance
2022-01-16
Citation
IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 2022, 69 (7)
ISSN
0018-9294
Publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Journal / Book Title
IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering
Volume
69
Issue
7
Copyright Statement
© 2022 The Author(s). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License. For more information, see https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Identifier
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9690005
Subjects
Biomedical Engineering
0801 Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing
0903 Biomedical Engineering
0906 Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Publication Status
Published online
Date Publish Online
2022-01-21