An algorithm for detecting events in video EEG monitoring data of patients with craniocerebral injuries

Abstract

One of the problems solved by analyzing the data of long-term Video EEG monitoring is the differentiation of epileptic and artifact events. For this, not only multichannel EEG signals are used, but also video data analysis, since traditional methods based on the analysis of EEG wavelet spectrograms cannot reliably distinguish an epileptic seizure from a chewing artifact. In this paper, we propose an algorithm for detecting artifact events based on a joint analysis of the level of the optical flow and the ridges of wavelet spectrograms. The preliminary results of the analysis of real clinical data are given. The results show the possibility in principle of reliable distinguishing non-epileptic events from epileptic seizures.

Keywords

• video eeg monitoring data
• epileptic seizure
• optical flow
• wavelets
• ridges of wavelet spectrograms
• clinical applications