Scalpnet: Detection Of Spatiotemporal Abnormal Intervals In Epileptic Eeg Using Convolutional Neural Networks

We propose ScalpNet: A deep neural network to detect spatiotemporal abnormal intervals from EEGs of epilepsy patients. Since the number of trained clinicians is very limited, it is very crucial to establish automatic detection of abnormal signals caused by epilepsy from EEGs. We build a convolutional neural network detecting spatiotemporal intervals that will be abnormal based on the fact that peaky EEG signals can be observed not only in the electrode close to the focal region but those in the surrounding regions. In the experiments with a real dataset, our proposed ScalpNet presents higher classification accuracy than existing machine learning methods, including a convolutional neural network performed by channel-by-channel.