Epilepsy Identification using EEG signal monitoring

Electroencephalogram (EEG) is nothing but measuring electric activity of brain. EEG is non-stationary signal. EEG characterizes human behavior. There are many brain abnormalities that can be identified and treated using EEG behavior analysis. As per researchers study Epilepsy is commonly happening disorder that is getting spread over the time. It is nothing but sudden stroke in brain where patient suffers from unusual activities seizures. Sometimes symptoms are such severe that ignorance leads to death. So it is important to identify its earlier symptoms and treat it in time so as to avoid risk. EEG signals are used for getting features in time as well as frequency domain. These features are further analyzed and classified to identify EEG abnormality.


Introduction
EEG signal plays important role in identifying various brain disorders. Epilepsy is considered as a most usually occurring brain abnormality that, according to W.H.O. evaluation, touches nearly 0.06 billion folks all over the biosphere. Roughly one amongst hundred persons gets suffered from seizure during his/her lifespan. This disorder is described by the repeated and abrupt occurrence having epileptic seizures which may result in to unsafe and conceivably deadly conditions. EEG shows electrical movement of the brain which consists of transitory and unanticipated electrical disruption of the brain and disproportionate neuronal release that ends in epileptic stroke. Subsequently, the EEG signal can be treated as most exploited signal in medical investigations which gives an idea of the brain state and also helps clinicians' for early detection of epileptic strokes which plays vital role in early diagnosis and precautionary measures.
Whenever patient consults physician, patient's EEG data is generally acquired for a few days which is a tiresome and inefficient process. The revealing of abnormality in brain just by observing reports is time consuming and also difficult for physician to diagnose on a large scale. In spite of that, it also needs a professional to examine the complete span of the EEG records, so as to identify abnormal activity in EEG. A trustworthy involuntary classification and recognition scheme would guarantee an objective with enabling treatment and suggestively advance an epilepsy diagnosis in addition to that long-term monitoring and treatment of patients. Consequently, there arises a solid demand in the improvement of similar programmed systems, due to both massive quantities and augmented habit of long-standing EEG records for appropriate assessment and cure of neurological illnesses, comprising epilepsy. It can narrow down the possibility of the professional misunderstanding the statistics and failure to make correct decision.
In recent era, numerous automated brain wave sorting and seizure recognition systems have developed. These use various algorithms for finding disorders. One of the researchers named Gotman offered a high-tech system for perceiving different seizure types. Meantime Qu and Gotman projected their findings by using k nearestneighbor classification algorithm on t & f domain extracted features of EEG. It is useful in detecting seizure onset of epilepcy. Gigola and his coworkers used an evolutionary method which uses gathered energy. They used wavelet decomposition for predicting onset of epileptogenic seizure from intracranial EEG records. Adeli along with Guler proved time series potential in nonlinear analysis in early detection.
Many researches proposed their concepts which are based on ANN grounded detection schemes for identifying epilepsy. Weng along with Khorasani used Gotman discussed features like average of brain wave magnitude, averaged duration of EEG, coefficient of variation, power spectral average and frequency dominance. They treated these features as source of inputs for adaptive NN. Pradhan with his researchers focused on raw EEG which is used as input to learning vector quantization system. Nigam came with proposing innovative NN model named Large Memory Storage and Retrieval type of network and 2 spatial domain EEG characteristics. These characteristics are spike rhythmicity and comparative amplitude that acted as inputs to the seizure detection algorithm. The procedure projected by Kiymik uses BPNN using AR coefficients and spectral density estimate treated as responses for programmed recognition of seizures. Ghosh Dastidar conferred new methodology of classification which is relevant with wavelet decomposition which contained and LMBPNN with basis function (radial). Srinivasan offered a methodology which took help of imprecise entropy as response for ANN classifier. Subasi focused on wavelet based analyzing and experts mixture along with ANN, to categorize normal EEG from epileptic EEGs..

EEG signal
To acquire electric activity of brain, EEG researchers use different invasive or noninvasive methods. They do not need to insert electrodes in skulls during noninvasive method so it is easier. Appreciatively, electrodes can be arranged on scalp with reference electrodes and electric activity of brain can be recorded easily. German neurologist Hans Berger applied this procedure to humans in 1920s. EEG is hence proved to be least expensive, non-invasive, and entirely passive recording method.
As compared to other imaging techniques like FMRI, EEG proved more beneficial and gives more clean behavior interpretations. EEG represents outstanding time resolution, which means, it is able to take numerous of electrical activity snapshots using different electrodes in fraction of a second. This solidifies brain signal as perfect tools for learning the specific time base of mental and intellectual behavioral treating.
In distinction to extra physiological records like EDA/GSR that frequently necessitate merely very few of electrodes. EEG records are obtained using electrode arrangements, including numerous sensor figures fluctuating from ten to more than five hundred electrodes, dependent on the latitude of the experiment. For quicker solicitation, elastic caps of pre mounted electrode locations, meshes, or rigid grids, are used safeguarding that values obtained are from matching scalp locations through respondents.

EEG signal acquisition : The 10 20 Electrode System
The 10 20 system consists of placement of electrodes that covers brain in such a way that The perpendicular link joining front (nasion) with back (inion) plus parallel link joining right with left pre-auricular sockets are distributed into 10 identical sectors. Likewise, equator is distributed into ten per cent and twenty per cent lots. Important points in the 10-20 scheme are: Rightward and Leftward preauricular points

. Artifacts
Before researcher hurdle into EEG acquisition and its analysis, one thing should be considered that whatever data is acquired should be purely clean from unwanted disturbances so as to get accurate results. Always it should be ensured that collected data must be free from artifacts as much as possible, which concludes that acquired data returns brain electric values only. Theoretically as it sees very simple but practically it is very much tedious and carefully treated task. The various artifacts are listed below.

Physiological Artifacts (1) Muscle Activity (2) Eye Movements (3) Blinks 1.3.2. External Sources of Artifacts
(1) Electrode Movement (2) Line Noise (3) Swinging As scalp electrodes can collect electrical movement starting at different places in atmosphere, its advised to circumvent, diminish or at least govern such categories of artifacts as finest as possible.

Methodology
As it is discussed earlier EEG signal is acquired using 10 20 electrode system. Acquired signal is always contaminated with unwanted signals known as artifacts. Then acquired signal is filtered using various filters depend on presence of artifacts. Filtered EEG signal is used for extracting features from it. As one domain cannot give the desired information, signal is analyzed in time as well as frequency domain. For example features extracted are mean, variance, kurtosis, skewness, bandpower, entropy, wavelet band energy, wavelet coefficients, etc. Acquired features are further studied and selected for further classification. Different classifiers like ANN, SVM, CNN can be used for getting better accuracy.

Conclusion
EEG signal is used for detecting brain disorders. For EEG signals of Normal and Epileptic patients time and frequency domain features are calculated. Wavelet sub band coding is used with decomposition level 4 using Db2 mother wavelet. The sub band energies are calculated. Also mean , variance Skewness, Kurtosis values are calculated. These features can be used to classify signals. Classifiers like Convolutional Neural Network and Support vector Machine are used and compared their performance for accuracy and precision. It can be concluded that EEG plays its role as a detection tool to detect the disease in the early stage, rehabilitation, classification or as an assistive tool for the patient according to the needs of the diseases.