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Digital Transformation in Epilepsy Diagnosis Using Raw Images and Transfer Learning in Electroencephalograms

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  • Marlen Sofía Muñoz

    (Dynamic Systems, Instrumentation, and Control Research Group, Physics Department, Universidad del Cauca, Popayán 190001, Colombia)

  • Camilo Ernesto Sarmiento Torres

    (Dynamic Systems, Instrumentation, and Control Research Group, Physics Department, Universidad del Cauca, Popayán 190001, Colombia)

  • Ricardo Salazar-Cabrera

    (Telematics Engineering Research Group (GIT), Telematics Department, Universidad del Cauca, Popayán 190001, Colombia)

  • Diego M. López

    (Telematics Engineering Research Group (GIT), Telematics Department, Universidad del Cauca, Popayán 190001, Colombia)

  • Rubiel Vargas-Cañas

    (Dynamic Systems, Instrumentation, and Control Research Group, Physics Department, Universidad del Cauca, Popayán 190001, Colombia)

Abstract

Epilepsy diagnosis is a medical care process that requires considerable transformation, mainly in developed countries, to provide efficient and effective care services taking into consideration the low number of available neurologists, especially in rural areas. EEG remains the most common test used to diagnose epilepsy. In recent years, there has been an increase in deep learning techniques to analyze electroencephalograms (EEG) to detect epileptiform events. These types of techniques support the epilepsy diagnostic processes performed by neurologists. There have been several approaches such as biomedical signal processing, analysis of characteristics extracted from the signals, and image analysis to detect epileptiform events. Most of the works reported in the literature, which use images, transformed the signals into a two-dimensional space interpreted as an image. However, only a few of them use the raw EEG image. This paper presents a computational model for detecting epileptiform events from raw EEG images, using convolutional neural networks and a transfer learning approach. To perform this work, 100 pediatric EEGs were collected, noting six characteristics of epileptiform events in each exam: spikes, poly-spikes, spike-and-wave, sharp waves, periodic, and a combination of them. Then, pre-trained convolutional neural networks were used, which, through transfer learning techniques, were retrained to classify possible events. The model’s performance was evaluated in terms of precision, accuracy, and Mathews’ correlation coefficient. The model offered a performance above 95% accuracy for binary classification and above 87% for multi-class classification. These results demonstrated that identifying epileptiform events from raw EEG images combined with deep learning techniques such as transfer learning is feasible. Significance: The proposed method for the evaluation of EEG tests, as a support tool for the diagnosis of epilepsy, can help to reduce the time of reading EEGs, which is very important, especially in developing countries with a limitation of a specialist in neurology.

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  • Marlen Sofía Muñoz & Camilo Ernesto Sarmiento Torres & Ricardo Salazar-Cabrera & Diego M. López & Rubiel Vargas-Cañas, 2022. "Digital Transformation in Epilepsy Diagnosis Using Raw Images and Transfer Learning in Electroencephalograms," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(18), pages 1-16, September.
  • Handle: RePEc:gam:jsusta:v:14:y:2022:i:18:p:11420-:d:912760
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