EEG Transient Event Detection and Classification Using Association Rules

  • Authors:
  • T. P. Exarchos;A. T. Tzallas;D. I. Fotiadis;S. Konitsiotis;S. Giannopoulos

  • Affiliations:
  • Unit of Med. Technol. & Intelligent Inf. Syst., Univ. of Ioannina;-;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

In this paper, a methodology for the automated detection and classification of transient events in electroencephalographic (EEG) recordings is presented. It is based on association rule mining and classifies transient events into four categories: epileptic spikes, muscle activity, eye blinking activity, and sharp alpha activity. The methodology involves four stages: 1) transient event detection; 2) clustering of transient events and feature extraction; 3) feature discretization and feature subset selection; and 4) association rule mining and classification of transient events. The methodology is evaluated using 25 EEG recordings, and the best obtained accuracy was 87.38%. The proposed approach combines high accuracy with the ability to provide interpretation for the decisions made, since it is based on a set of association rules