Application of a dissimilarity index of EEG and its sub-bands on prediction of induced epileptic seizures from rat's EEG signals

Research on MI EEG signal classification algorithm using multi-model fusion strategy coupling

To enhance the accuracy of motor imagery(MI)EEG signal recognition, two methods, namely power spectral density and wavelet packet decomposition combined with a common spatial pattern, were employed to explore the feature information in depth in MI EEG signals. The extracted MI EEG signal features were subjected to series feature fusion, and the F-test method was used to select features with higher information content. Here regarding the accuracy of MI EEG signal classification, we further proposed the Platt Scaling probability calibration method was used to calibrate the results obtained from six basic classifiers, namely random forest (RF), support vector machines (SVM), Logistic Regression (LR), Gaussian naïve bayes (GNB), eXtreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost), and Light Gradient Boosting Machine (LightGBM). From these 12 classifiers, three to four with higher accuracy were selected for model fusion. The proposed method was validated on Datasets 2a of the 4th International BCI Competition, achieving an average accuracy of MI EEG data of nine subjects reached 91.46%, which indicates that model fusion was an effective method to improve classification accuracy, and provides some reference value for the research on MI brain-machine interface.

Pre-control characterization of hippocampal epileptic models

This paper presents a dynamical characterization of epileptic seizures in animal models. Inter-hippocampal recordings of two animal models of seizures, kindling and pilocarpine, were analyzed by nonlinear analytic tools. The aim is to assess and differentiate pathophysiological states and behavioral phases of a status epilepticus. The achieved results indicates that stage V of Racine classification could be identified as the transition of dynamical indicators exhibit a monotonic decline up to this stage and an increase after that. Furthermore, concentration of data points on a small region of state space, achieved by our analysis, promises that a local nonlinear control may cause neuromodulation. This feasibility gets more strengthen by achievements of this paper on successful tracking of drifts of unstable periodic orbits at seizure onset. Nonlinear control algorithms could afterwards be designed to find suitable instances for inserting perturbations and steer the dynamics of system toward a desired dynamical operating mode.