Pair-Wise Matching of EEG Signals for Epileptic Identification via Convolutional Neural Network

Electroencephalogram (EEG) have been extensively analyzed to identify the characteristics of epileptic seizures in the literature. However, most of these studies focus on the properties of single channel EEG data while neglecting the association between signals from diverse channels. To bridge this gap, we propose an EEG instance matching-based epilepsy classification approach by introducing one convolutional neural network (CNN). First of all, each pair of EEG signals are exploited to form one 2 dimensional matrix, which could be used to reveal the interaction between them. Secondly, the generated matrices are fed into the proposed CNN that would discriminate the input representations. To evaluate the performance of the presented approach, the comparison experiments between the state-of-the-art techniques and our work are conducted on publicly available epilepsy EEG benchmark database. Experimental results indicate that the proposed algorithm could yield the performance with an average accuracy of 99.3%, average sensitivity of 99.5%, and average specificity 99.6%.