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. 2015 Aug:2015:582-5.
doi: 10.1109/EMBC.2015.7318429.

Classification of convulsive psychogenic non-epileptic seizures using muscle transforms obtained from accelerometry signal

Classification of convulsive psychogenic non-epileptic seizures using muscle transforms obtained from accelerometry signal

Shitanshu Kusmakar et al. Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2015 Aug.

Abstract

Convulsive psychogenic non-epileptic seizure (PNES) can be characterized as events which mimics epileptic seizures but do not show any characteristic changes on electroencephalogram (EEG). Correct diagnosis requires video-electroencephalography monitoring (VEM) as the diagnosis of PNES is extremely difficult in primary health care. Recent work has demonstrated the usefulness of accelerometry signal taken during a seizure in classification of PNES. In this work, a new direction has been explored to understand the role of different muscles in PNES. This is achieved by modeling the muscle activity of ten different upper limb muscles as a resultant function of accelerometer signal. Using these models, the accelerometer signals recorded from convulsive epileptic patients were transformed into individual muscle components. Based on this, an automated algorithm for classification of convulsive PNES is proposed. The algorithm calculates four wavelet domain features based on signal power, approximate entropy, kurtosis and signal skewness. These features were then used to build a classification model using support vector machines (SVM) classifier. It was found that the transforms corresponding to anterior deltoid and brachioradialis results in good PNES classification accuracy. The algorithm showed a high sensitivity of 93.33% and an overall PNES classification accuracy of 89% with the transform corresponding to anterior deltoid.

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