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    Automated Interpretation of Abnormal Adult Electroencephalograms

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    Date
    2017
    Author
    Lopez de Diego, Silvia Isabel
    Advisor
    Picone, Joseph
    Committee member
    Obeid, Iyad, 1975-
    Chitturi, Pallavi
    Department
    Electrical and Computer Engineering
    Subject
    Artificial Intelligence
    Neurosciences
    Electrical Engineering
    Convolutional Neural Networks
    Electroencephalogram
    Hidden Markov Models
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    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12613/1767
    
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    http://dx.doi.org/10.34944/dspace/1749
    Abstract
    Interpretation of electroencephalograms (EEGs) is a process that is still dependent on the subjective analysis of the examiner. The interrater agreement, even for relevant clinical events such as seizures, can be low. For instance, the differences between interictal, ictal, and post-ictal EEGs can be quite subtle. Before making such low-level interpretations of the signals, neurologists often classify EEG signals as either normal or abnormal. Even though the characteristics of a normal EEG are well defined, there are some factors, such as benign variants, that complicate this decision. However, neurologists can make this classification accurately by only examining the initial portion of the signal. Therefore, in this thesis, we explore the hypothesis that high performance machine classification of an EEG signal as abnormal can approach human performance using only the first few minutes of an EEG recording. The goal of this thesis is to establish a baseline for automated classification of abnormal adult EEGs using state of the art machine learning algorithms and a big data resource – The TUH EEG Corpus. A demographically balanced subset of the corpus was used to evaluate performance of the systems. The data was partitioned into a training set (1,387 normal and 1,398 abnormal files), and an evaluation set (150 normal and 130 abnormal files). A system based on hidden Markov Models (HMMs) achieved an error rate of 26.1%. The addition of a Stacked Denoising Autoencoder (SdA) post-processing step (HMM-SdA) further decreased the error rate to 24.6%. The overall best result (21.2% error rate) was achieved by a deep learning system that combined a Convolutional Neural Network and a Multilayer Perceptron (CNN-MLP). Even though the performance of our algorithm still lags human performance, which approaches a 1% error rate for this task, we have established an experimental paradigm that can be used to explore this application and have demonstrated a promising baseline using state of the art deep learning technology.
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