Real-time epilepsy seizure detection based on EEG using tunable-Q wavelet transform and convolutional neural network

Epilepsy is a chronic disease caused by sudden abnormal discharge of brain neurons, leading to transient brain dysfunctions. This paper proposed an EEG based real-time approach to detect epilepsy seizures using tunable-Q wavelet transform and convolutional neural network (CNN). Statistical moments and spectral band power were used to reveal the time domain and frequency domain features in EEG, and then were converted into imaged-like data fed into CNN. The proposed approach was evaluated using the database CHB-MIT. The proposed algorithm achieved 97.57% in accuracy, 98.90% in sensitivity, 2.13% in false positive rate and 10.46-second delay. In addition, the proposed method is suitable in real-time implementation. The outcomes indicate that the proposed method can applied to real-time seizure detection in clinical applications.