Comparison of EEG based epilepsy diagnosis using neural networks and wavelet transform

Epilepsy is one of the common neurological disorders characterized by recurrent and uncontrollable seizures, which seriously affect the life of patients. In many cases, electroencephalograms signal can provide important physiological information about the activity of the human brain which can be used to diagnose epilepsy. However, visual inspection of a large number of electroencephalogram signals is very time-consuming and can often lead to inconsistencies in physicians' diagnoses. Quantification of abnormalities in brain signals can indicate brain conditions and pathology so the electroencephalogram (EEG) signal plays a key role in the diagnosis of epilepsy. In this article, an attempt has been made to create a single instruction for diagnosing epilepsy, which consists of two steps. In the first step, a low-pass filter was used to preprocess the data and three separate mid-pass filters for different frequency bands and a multilayer neural network were designed. In the second step, the wavelet transform technique was used to process data. In particular, this paper proposes a multilayer perceptron neural network classifier for the diagnosis of epilepsy, that requires normal data and epilepsy data for education, but this classifier can recognize normal disorders, epilepsy, and even other disorders taught in educational examples. Also, the value of using electroencephalogram signal has been evaluated in two ways: using wavelet transform and non-using wavelet transform. Finally, the evaluation results indicate a relatively uniform impact factor on the use or non-use of wavelet transform on the improvement of epilepsy data functions, but in the end, it was shown that the use of perceptron multilayer neural network can provide a higher accuracy coefficient for experts.Comment: 8 pages, 4 tables, 3 figure

The status of textile-based dry EEG electrodes

Electroencephalogram (EEG) is the biopotential recording of electrical signals generated by brain activity. It is useful for monitoring sleep quality and alertness, clinical applications, diagnosis, and treatment of patients with epilepsy, disease of Parkinson and other neurological disorders, as well as continuous monitoring of tiredness/ alertness in the field. We provide a review of textile-based EEG. Most of the developed textile-based EEGs remain on shelves only as published research results due to a limitation of flexibility, stickability, and washability, although the respective authors of the works reported that signals were obtained comparable to standard EEG. In addition, nearly all published works were not quantitatively compared and contrasted with conventional wet electrodes to prove feasibility for the actual application. This scenario would probably continue to give a publication credit, but does not add to the growth of the specific field, unless otherwise new integration approaches and new conductive polymer composites are evolved to make the application of textile-based EEG happen for bio-potential monitoring