Optimal Feature Space Selection in Detecting Epileptic Seizure based on Recurrent Quantification Analysis and Genetic Algorithm

Subject Areas : Biomedical signal processing

Saleh  LAshkari ¹ (Phd Condidate - Department of Electrical Engineering, Mashhad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Mashhad, Iran)
Mehdi  Azarnoosh ² (Assistant Professor - Department of Electrical Engineering, Mashhad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Mashhad, Iran)

Received: 2015-07-23 Accepted : 2016-04-25 Published : 2016-07-01

Keywords: Feature Selection, Electroencephalogram, Seizure Epileptic Detection, Recurrent Quantification Analysis,

Abstract :

Selecting optimal features based on nature of the phenomenon and high discriminant ability is very important in the data classification problems. Since it doesn't require any assumption about stationary condition and size of the signal and the noise in Recurrent Quantification Analysis (RQA), it may be useful for epileptic seizure Detection. In this study, RQA was used to discriminate ictal EEG from the normal EEG where optimal features selected by combination of algorithm genetic and Bayesian Classifier. Recurrence plots of hundred samples in each two categories were obtained with five distance norms in this study: Euclidean, Maximum, Minimum, Normalized and Fixed Norm. In order to choose optimal threshold for each norm, ten threshold of ε was generated and then the best feature space was selected by genetic algorithm in combination with a bayesian classifier. The results shown that proposed method is capable of discriminating the ictal EEG from the normal EEG where for Minimum norm and 0.1˂ε˂1, accuracy was 100%. In addition, the sensitivity of proposed framework to the ε and the distance norm parameters was low. The optimal feature presented in this study is Trans which it was selected in most feature spaces with high accuracy.

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