Epilepsy Prediction and Detection Using Attention-CssCDBN with Dual-Task Learning

Epilepsy is a group of neurological disorders characterized by epileptic seizures, and it affects tens of millions of people worldwide. Currently, the most effective diagnostic method employs the monitoring of brain activity through electroencephalogram (EEG). However, it is critical to predict epil...

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Main Authors: Weizheng Qiao, Xiaojun Bi, Lu Han, Yulin Zhang
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description Epilepsy is a group of neurological disorders characterized by epileptic seizures, and it affects tens of millions of people worldwide. Currently, the most effective diagnostic method employs the monitoring of brain activity through electroencephalogram (EEG). However, it is critical to predict epileptic seizures in patients prior to their onset, allowing for the administration of preventive medications before the seizure occurs. As a pivotal application of artificial intelligence in medical treatment, learning the features of EEGs for epilepsy prediction and detection remains a challenging problem, primarily due to the presence of intra-class and inter-class variations in EEG signals. In this study, we propose the spatio-temporal EEGNet, which integrates contractive slab and spike convolutional deep belief network (CssCDBN) with a self-attention architecture, augmented by dual-task learning to address this issue. Initially, our model was designed to extract high-order and deep representations from EEG spectrum images, enabling the simultaneous capture of spatial and temporal information. Furthermore, EEG-based verification aids in reducing intra-class variation by considering the time correlation of the EEG during the fine-tuning stage, resulting in easier inference and training. The results demonstrate the notable efficacy of our proposed method. Our method achieved a sensitivity of 98.5%, a false-positive rate (FPR) of 0.041, a prediction time of 50.92 min during the epilepsy prediction task, and an accuracy of 94.1% during the epilepsy detection task, demonstrating significant improvements over current state-of-the-art methods.
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spelling doaj-art-0e5972b66ff844e9ab284ce5f13e968b2025-01-10T13:20:42ZengMDPI AGSensors1424-82202024-12-012515110.3390/s25010051Epilepsy Prediction and Detection Using Attention-CssCDBN with Dual-Task LearningWeizheng Qiao0Xiaojun Bi1Lu Han2Yulin Zhang3Laboratory of Ethnic Language Intelligent Analysis and Security Governance of MOE, Minzu University of China, Beijing 100081, ChinaLaboratory of Ethnic Language Intelligent Analysis and Security Governance of MOE, Minzu University of China, Beijing 100081, ChinaLaboratory of Ethnic Language Intelligent Analysis and Security Governance of MOE, Minzu University of China, Beijing 100081, ChinaLaboratory of Ethnic Language Intelligent Analysis and Security Governance of MOE, Minzu University of China, Beijing 100081, ChinaEpilepsy is a group of neurological disorders characterized by epileptic seizures, and it affects tens of millions of people worldwide. Currently, the most effective diagnostic method employs the monitoring of brain activity through electroencephalogram (EEG). However, it is critical to predict epileptic seizures in patients prior to their onset, allowing for the administration of preventive medications before the seizure occurs. As a pivotal application of artificial intelligence in medical treatment, learning the features of EEGs for epilepsy prediction and detection remains a challenging problem, primarily due to the presence of intra-class and inter-class variations in EEG signals. In this study, we propose the spatio-temporal EEGNet, which integrates contractive slab and spike convolutional deep belief network (CssCDBN) with a self-attention architecture, augmented by dual-task learning to address this issue. Initially, our model was designed to extract high-order and deep representations from EEG spectrum images, enabling the simultaneous capture of spatial and temporal information. Furthermore, EEG-based verification aids in reducing intra-class variation by considering the time correlation of the EEG during the fine-tuning stage, resulting in easier inference and training. The results demonstrate the notable efficacy of our proposed method. Our method achieved a sensitivity of 98.5%, a false-positive rate (FPR) of 0.041, a prediction time of 50.92 min during the epilepsy prediction task, and an accuracy of 94.1% during the epilepsy detection task, demonstrating significant improvements over current state-of-the-art methods.https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/25/1/51epilepsy prediction and detectionelectroencephalogramsdeep learningconvolutional deep belief networkTransformerdual-task learning
spellingShingle Weizheng Qiao
Xiaojun Bi
Lu Han
Yulin Zhang
Epilepsy Prediction and Detection Using Attention-CssCDBN with Dual-Task Learning
Sensors
epilepsy prediction and detection
electroencephalograms
deep learning
convolutional deep belief network
Transformer
dual-task learning
title Epilepsy Prediction and Detection Using Attention-CssCDBN with Dual-Task Learning
title_full Epilepsy Prediction and Detection Using Attention-CssCDBN with Dual-Task Learning
title_fullStr Epilepsy Prediction and Detection Using Attention-CssCDBN with Dual-Task Learning
title_full_unstemmed Epilepsy Prediction and Detection Using Attention-CssCDBN with Dual-Task Learning
title_short Epilepsy Prediction and Detection Using Attention-CssCDBN with Dual-Task Learning
title_sort epilepsy prediction and detection using attention csscdbn with dual task learning
topic epilepsy prediction and detection
electroencephalograms
deep learning
convolutional deep belief network
Transformer
dual-task learning
url https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/25/1/51
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