Patient-independent epileptic seizure detection using weighted visibility graph features and wavelet decomposition

作     者：Mohammadpoory, Zeynab Nasrolahzadeh, Mahda Amiri, Sekineh Asadi 

作者机构：Department of Biomedical Engineering Shahrood University of Technology Shahrood Iran Department of Electrical Engineering University of Torbat Heydarieh Torbat Heydarieh Iran Department of Computer Engineering University of Mazandaran Babolsar Iran 

出 版 物：《Multimedia Tools and Applications》 (Multimedia Tools Appl)

年 卷 期：2025年第84卷第6期

页      面：3197-3221页

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学科分类：08[工学] 0835[工学-软件工程] 0803[工学-光学工程] 0812[工学-计算机科学与技术（可授工学、理学学位）] 

主　　题：Electroencephalography 

摘      要：Epileptic seizure detection has been a complex task due to the chaos and non-stationariness observed in the electroencephalogram (EEG) signals. Most existing EEG-based seizure detection algorithms are patient-dependent and train a detection model for each patient. This study investigates the patient-independent detection of seizure events using the big dataset CHB-MIT Scalp EEG. This paper proposes a new method based on weighted visibility graph (WVG) features to identify seizures from EEG signals. EEG signals from 22 channels and delta, theta, alpha, beta, and gamma sub-bands of EEGs are mapped into the WVG, and then WVG features are calculated from these WVGs. Then more informative features were selected using a combination of some feature selection methods and were given to five classifiers to investigate the performance of these features to classify the brain signals into seizure free (interictal) and during a seizure (ictal) groups. After that, the post-processing step was used to promote the performance of the method and also detect the seizure onset and offset times detection. The proposed method could detect 163 seizures out of 184, considering patient-independent situations for training classifiers and it could obtain an accuracy, sensitivity, and specificity of 94.02%, 92.31%, and 94.12% respectively. It also could obtain an FDR equal to 0.12/h and an ADL of 5.11 Seconds. Then, the proposed method has promising results in detection of seizures and it may use in online seizure detection applications such as closed-loop therapies. This study proposed extracting some WVG-based features from the signal and its sub-band with a feature selection scheme combining some feature selection methods and using some classifiers. Then a post-processing proposed to process the classifiers output and promote the performance of the proposed method. © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2025.