MFCC-CNN: A patient-independent seizure prediction model

Automatic prediction of seizures is a major goal in the field of epilepsy. However, the high variability of Electroencephalogram (EEG) signals in different patients limits the use of prediction models in clinical applications.

This paper proposes a patient-independent seizure prediction model, named MFCC-CNN, to improve the generalization ability. MFCC-CNN model introduces Mel-Frequency Cepstrum Coefficients (MFCC) features and Linear Predictive Cepstral Coefficients (LPCC) features concentrated in the low frequency region, which contains more detailed information. Convolutional neural network (CNN) is used to construct a seizure prediction model.

Experimental results showed that the proposed model obtained accuracy of 96 $$ , sensitivity of 92 $$ , specificity of 84 $$ and F1-score of 85 $$ for 24 cases in CNHB-MIT dataset. The overall performance of MFCC-CNN model is better than the other models.

MFCC-CNN model does not need to be specifically customized for different patients. As a patient-independent seizure prediction model, it has good generalization ability.