An efficient method for identification of epileptic seizures from EEG signals using Fourier analysis

Epilepsy is a disease recognized as the chronic neurological dysfunction of the human brain which is described by the sudden and excessive electrical discharges of the brain cells. Electroencephalogram (EEG) is a prime tool applied for the diagnosis of epilepsy. In this study, a novel and effective approach is introduced to decompose the non-stationary EEG signals using the Fourier decomposition method. The concept of position, velocity, and acceleration has been employed on the EEG signals for feature extraction using [Formula: see text] norms computed from Fourier intrinsic band functions (FIBFs). The proposed scheme comprises three main sections. In the first section, the EEG signal is decomposed into a finite number of FIBFs. In the second stage, the features are extracted from FIBFs and relevant features are selected by using the Kruskal-Wallis test. In the last stage, the significant features are passed on to the support vector machine (SVM) classifier. By applying 10-fold cross-validation, the proposed method provides better results in comparison to the state-of-the-art methods discussed in the literature, with an average classification accuracy of 99.96% and 99.94% for classification of EEG signals from the BONN dataset and the CHB-MIT dataset, respectively. It can be implemented using the computationally efficient fast Fourier transform (FFT) algorithm.