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Automated Interictal Epileptiform Discharge Detection from Scalp EEG Using Scalable Time-series Classification

D Nhu¹, M Janmohamed², L Shakhatreh²

¹Department of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.

International Journal of Neural Systems

|January 4, 2023

Summary

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This study evaluates general time-series classification (TSC) methods for automated interictal epileptiform discharge (IED) detection using deep learning. While effective on private data, models struggled to generalize from public datasets, highlighting the need for more diverse public data.

Keywords:

Interictal epileptiform discharge clinical decision support deep learning electroencephalogram epileptic spikes time-series

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Area of Science:

Neuroscience
Machine Learning
Signal Processing

Background:

Automated detection of interictal epileptiform discharges (IEDs) from electroencephalogram (EEG) signals is crucial for epilepsy diagnosis and management.
Existing deep learning approaches for IED detection primarily focus on bespoke time-series models, often lacking standardized evaluation on public datasets.
General time-series classification (TSC) methods have not been extensively explored for this specific clinical application.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate the efficacy of two state-of-the-art convolutional-based TSC algorithms, InceptionTime and Minirocket, for automated IED detection.
To fine-tune and cross-evaluate these TSC algorithms on both public and private EEG datasets.
To establish benchmarking metrics for future research in automated IED detection.

Main Methods:

Exploration of InceptionTime and Minirocket, established convolutional TSC algorithms, for IED detection.
Fine-tuning and cross-evaluation of models on the public Temple University Events (TUEV) dataset and two private datasets.
Performance assessment using metrics such as Area Under Precision-Recall Curve (AUPRC) and F1-score.

Main Results:

Optimal algorithm parameters were found to correlate with the clinical duration of IEDs.
High performance was achieved on private datasets (AUPRC: 0.98, F1: 0.80) and the TUEV dataset (AUPRC: 0.99, F1: 0.97).
Models trained on private data generalized better to the TUEV dataset than vice-versa, suggesting dataset-specific biases.

Conclusions:

General TSC algorithms show promise for automated IED detection, but performance is sensitive to dataset characteristics.
Disparities in class distribution and data diversity across datasets hinder cross-dataset generalizability.
Development of more diverse public EEG datasets is essential for robust algorithm standardization and benchmarking.