Predictive analytics in healthcare epileptic seizure recognition
Ashok Bhowmick, Tamer Abdou, Ayşe Bener · Computer Science and Software Engineering · 2018
Introduction Clinical applications of electroencephalography (EEG) span a very broad range of diagnostic conditions. Epileptic seizure is the fourth most common neurological disorder in that. Related Work There has been considerable progress in clinical understanding of epilepsy, however many aspects of seizure prevention are still a mystery. Predictive modeling of EEG can provide significant value addition to substantiate the diagnosis of epilepsy. Methodology Machine learning algorithms are applied to predict the probability of epileptic seizure using an open source multi-class dataset. Results and Discussion Comparing the F-score from different classifiers, it is found that XGBoost gives the best performance in binary classification and Random Forest provides the best performance in multinomial classification. Conclusion Our results show that it is possible to predict epileptic seizure with significant accuracy from non-epileptic parameters using a suitable machine learning algorithm. We also observe that binary classification methods have higher prediction accuracy.