Robust Detection of Epileptic Seizures Using Deep Neural Networks

Robust detection of epileptic seizures in the presence of inevitable artifacts in Electroencephalogram (EEG) signals is addressed. The EEG dataset considered contains 300 signals recorded from 15 volunteers. Current seizure detection systems achieve good performance when the EEG data is entirely free of noise. However, their performance drastically decays with authentic EEG data polluted by real artifacts. We introduce a robust seizure detection method that can address clean and noisy data. The proposed method uses Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) neural networks to extract the representative EEG features pertinent to seizures. Experimental results show that the proposed method beats existing methods by achieving 100% classification accuracy. Our method is also shown to be robust against the common EEG artifacts (e.g., muscle activities and eye-blinking) and white noise.