Review of Methods for EEG Signal Classification and Development of New Fuzzy Classification-Based Approach

Abstract

The analysis of EEG signal is a relevant problem in health informatics, and its development can help in detection of epileptic's seizures. The diagnosis is based on classification of EEG signal. Different methods and algorithms for classification of EEG signals with an accepted level of reliability and accuracy have been developed over years. All these methods have two steps that are signal preprocessing and classification. The goal of the preprocessing step is removing noise and reduction of the initial signal dimensionality. The signal dimensionality reduction is required by classification methods, but its result is a loss of small information before the classification. In this paper, an approach for EEG signal classification that takes this loss of information into account is considered. The novelty of the considered approach is usage of fuzzy classifier in the classification step. This classifier allows taking uncertainty of initial data into account, which is caused by loss of some information during dimensionality reduction of initial signal. However, application of fuzzy classifier needs modification of the preprocessing step because it requires data in fuzzy form. Therefore, fuzzification procedure is added to the preprocessing step. In this paper, Fuzzy Decision Tree (FDT) is used as the fuzzy classifier for the epileptic's seizure detection. Its application allows achieving 99.5% accuracy of the classification of epileptic's seizure. The comparison with other studies shows that FDT is very effective for task of epileptic's seizure detection.