Detection of epileptic seizures with the use of convolutional neural networks

The purpose of the article is to investigate whether the implementation of a CNN consisting of several layers will allow the effective detection of epileptic seizures. For the research, a publicly available database registered for 4 dogs and 8 people was used. The 1-second iEEG recordings were marked by a neurophysiologist as interictal, early seizure, and seizure. A CNN was trained for each patient individually. Coefficients such as precision, AUC, sensitivity, and specificity were calculated, and the results were compared with the best algorithms published in one of the contests on the Kaggle platform. The average accuracy for the recognition of seizures using CNN is 0.921, the sensitivity is 0.850, and the specificity is 0.927. For early seizures these values are 0.825, 0.782, and 0.828, respectively.