A real-time epilepsy seizure detection approach based on EEG using short-time Fourier transform and Google-Net convolutional neural network

Abstract

Epilepsy is one of the most common brain disorders, and seizures of epilepsy have severe adverse effects on patients. Real-time epilepsy seizure detection using electroencephalography (EEG) signals is an important research area aimed at improving the diagnosis and treatment of epilepsy. This paper proposed a real-time approach based on EEG signal for detecting epilepsy seizures using the STFT and Google-net convolutional neural network (CNN). The CHB-MIT database was used to evaluate the performance, and received the results of 97.74 % in accuracy, 98.90 % in sensitivity, 1.94 % in false positive rate. Additionally, the proposed method was implemented in a real-time manner using the sliding window technique. The processing time of the proposed method just 0.02 s for every 2-s EEG episode and achieved average 9.85- second delay in each seizure onset.