Automated technique for EEG signal processing to detect seizure with optimized Variable Gaussian Filter and Fuzzy RBFELM classifier

Abstract

Epileptic seizure in patients is detected from EEG signals with the use of automatic signal classification techniques. The accurate detection of epilepsy is essential to reduce the risk of seizure related complications. However the available automatic signal detection techniques give poor sensitivity and accuracy. In this work, an automatic signal classification method for detecting seizure from EEG signal is presented for obtaining good classification results. The proposed work improves the performance of detection using Variable Gaussian filter (VGF) with social spider algorithm (SSA) (SSA-VGF), Empirical Wavelet Transform (EWT) feature extraction method, K- Principal component analysis (K-PCA) based feature reduction and Fuzzy logic embedded RBF kernel based ELM algorithm (FRBFELM). The SSA-VGF method is used for removing noise artifacts from the given EEG signals. EWT is employed for feature extraction and the size of extracted features is reduced using K-PCA method. Finally the signals are classified as normal signals and epileptic signals using FRBFELM classifier. The performance of the proposed method is evaluated by measuring the metrics; PSNR, accuracy, sensitivity, and specificity. The value of performance metrics obtained for the proposed work is 98.48%, 98.44% and 98.51%.