Higher-Order Phase-Space Reconstruction for Detection of Epileptic Electroencephalogram

Abstract

In this paper, the authors propose a new technique for the classification of seizures, non-seizures, and seizure-free EEG signals based on non-linear trajectories of EEG signals. The EEG signals are decomposed using the EMD technique to obtain intrinsic mode functions (IMFs). The phase space of these IMFs is then reconstructed using a novel technique of higher-order dimensions (3D, 4D, 5D, 6D, 7D, 8D, 9D, and 10D). The existing techniques of seizure detection have deployed 2D & 3D phase–space reconstruction only. The Euclidean distance of all higher-order PSR is used as a feature to classify seizures, non-seizures, and seizure-free EEG signals. The performance of the proposed method is analyzed on the Bonn University database in which 7D reconstructed phase space classification accuracy of 99.9% has been achieved both using Random Forest classifier and J48 decision tree.