Early onset/offset detection of epileptic seizure using M-band wavelet decomposition

Early detection of the seizure and its diagnosis play an important role for effective treatment of epileptic patients. Most of the research used in this field has been focused on detection of the seizure. However, it is also very important to detect seizure with minimum delay, which can be useful to take care of the patient. In this paper, an efficient approach for seizure detection with low onset/offset latency is proposed using three-band wavelet decomposition. Variance and higher order moments are computed from wavelet-based feature extracted using three level wavelet decomposition. For comparative analysis, the extracted features are classified using two classifiers; decision tree (DT) and a shallow artificial neural network (ANN). The DT shows better classification performance as compare to ANN with classification specificity, sensitivity and accuracy of 99.6%, 98.97% and 99.49% respectively with onset and offset latency of 4.01 s and –0.21 s.