Dynamic, location-based channel selection for power consumption reduction in EEG analysis

The objective of this study is to develop methods to dynamically select EEG channels to reduce power consumption in seizure detection while maintaining detection accuracy. A method is proposed whereby a number of primary screening channels are predefined. Depending on the classification results of those channels, further channels are selected for analysis. This method provides savings in computational complexity of 43%. A further method called idling is then proposed which increases the computational saving to 75%. The performance of a location-independent, decision-based method is used for comparison. The proposed method achieves better computational savings for the same performance than the decision-based method. The decision-based method was capable of higher overall computational savings, but with a reduction in seizure detection performance. Each method was also implemented with the REACT algorithm on a Blackfin microprocessor and the average power measured. The proposed methods gave a power saving of up to 47% with no reduction in detection performance.