A stable feature extraction method in classification epileptic EEG signals

Abstract

Epilepsy is one of the most common neurological disorders. Electroencephalogram (EEG) signals are generally employed in diagnosing epilepsy. Therefore, extracting relevant features from EEG signals is one of the major tasks in an accurate diagnosis. In this study, the local ternary patterns, which is an image processing method, was improved in order to extract robust features from epileptic EEG signals. The EEG signals that were recorded by the Department of Etymology in the Bonn University were employed in the evaluation and validation of the proposed approach. Low and up features, which were extracted by the proposed one-dimensional ternary patterns, were classified by some machine learning methods such that support vector machine, functional trees, random forest (RF), Bayes networks (BayesNet), and artificial neural network, while the highest accuracies were obtained by RF. Achieved accuracies were found successful according to the current literature.