Frontiers in Neurology (Apr 2024)

Combining data augmentation and deep learning for improved epilepsy detection

  • Yandong Ru,
  • Yandong Ru,
  • Zheng Wei,
  • Gaoyang An,
  • Hongming Chen,
  • Hongming Chen

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3389/fneur.2024.1378076
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 15

Abstract

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IntroductionIn recent years, the use of EEG signals for seizure detection has gained widespread academic attention. Aiming at the problem of overfitting deep learning models due to the small number of EEG signal data during epilepsy detection, this paper proposes an epilepsy detection method that combines data augmentation and deep learning.MethodsFirst, the Adversarial and Mixup Data Augmentation (AMDA) method is used to realize the data augmentation, which effectively enriches the number of training samples. To further improve the classification accuracy and robustness of epilepsy detection, this paper proposes a one-dimensional convolutional neural network and gated recurrent unit (AM-1D CNN-GRU) network model based on attention mechanism for epilepsy detection.Results and discussionThe experimental results show that the performance of epilepsy detection achieved by using augmented data is significantly improved, and the accuracy, sensitivity, and area under the subject’s working characteristic curve are up to 96.06, 95.48%, and 0.9637, respectively. Compared with the non-augmented data, all indicators are increased by more than 6.2%. Meanwhile, the detection performance was significantly improved compared with other epilepsy detection methods. The results of this research can provide a reference for the clinical application of epilepsy detection.

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