title: Improved EEG Event Classification Using Differential Energy.
abstract: Feature extraction for automatic classification of EEG signals typically relies on time frequency representations of the signal. Techniques such as cepstral-based filter banks or wavelets are popular analysis techniques in many signal processing applications including EEG classification. In this paper, we present a comparison of a variety of approaches to estimating and postprocessing features. To further aid in discrimination of periodic signals from aperiodic signals, we add a differential energy term. We evaluate our approaches on the TUH EEG Corpus, which is the largest publicly available EEG corpus and an exceedingly challenging task due to the clinical nature of the data. We demonstrate that a variant of a standard filter bank-based approach, coupled with first and second derivatives, provides a substantial reduction in the overall error rate. The combination of differential energy and derivatives produces a24% absolute reduction in the error rate and improves our ability to discriminate between signal events and background noise. This relatively simple approach proves to be comparable to other popular feature extraction approaches such as wavelets, but is much more computationally efficient.
authors.affiliation: Neural Engineering Data Consortium, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Harati
authors.affiliation: Neural Engineering Data Consortium, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Golmohammadi
authors.affiliation: Neural Engineering Data Consortium, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Lopez
authors.affiliation: Neural Engineering Data Consortium, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Obeid
authors.affiliation: Neural Engineering Data Consortium, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Picone