EEG Opto-Processor: Epileptic Seizure Detection Using Diffractive Photonic Computing Units
Tao Yan,
Maoqi Zhang,
Hang Chen,
Sen Wan,
Kaifeng Shang,
Haiou Zhang,
Xun Cao,
Xing Lin,
Qionghai Dai
Affiliations
Tao Yan
Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China; Institute for Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
Maoqi Zhang
Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China; School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China
Hang Chen
Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
Sen Wan
Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China; Institute for Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China; Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
Kaifeng Shang
Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China; Institute for Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
Haiou Zhang
Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
Xun Cao
School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China
Xing Lin
Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China; Institute for Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China; Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China; Corresponding authors.
Qionghai Dai
Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China; Institute for Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China; Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China; Corresponding authors.
Electroencephalography (EEG) analysis extracts critical information from brain signals, enabling brain disease diagnosis and providing fundamental support for brain–computer interfaces. However, performing an artificial intelligence analysis of EEG signals with high energy efficiency poses significant challenges for electronic processors on edge computing devices, especially with large neural network models. Herein, we propose an EEG opto-processor based on diffractive photonic computing units (DPUs) to process extracranial and intracranial EEG signals effectively and to detect epileptic seizures. The signals of the EEG channels within a second-time window are optically encoded as inputs to the constructed diffractive neural networks for classification, which monitors the brain state to identify symptoms of an epileptic seizure. We developed both free-space and integrated DPUs as edge computing systems and demonstrated their applications for real-time epileptic seizure detection using benchmark datasets, that is, the Children’s Hospital Boston (CHB)–Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) extracranial and Epilepsy-iEEG-Multicenter intracranial EEG datasets, with excellent computing performance results. Along with the channel selection mechanism, both numerical evaluations and experimental results validated the sufficiently high classification accuracies of the proposed opto-processors for supervising clinical diagnosis. Our study opens a new research direction for utilizing photonic computing techniques to process large-scale EEG signals and promote broader applications.
