epileptic seizure detection by means of genetically programmed artificial features
In this paper, we describe a general-purpose, systematic algorithm, consisting of a genetic programming module and a k-nearest neighbor classifier to automatically create artificial features-features that are computer-crafted and may not have a known physical meaning-directly from the reconstructed state-space trajectories of the EEG signals that reveal patterns indicative of epileptic seizure onset. The algorithm was evaluated in three patients and validation experiments were carried out using 267.6 hours of EEG recordings. The results with the artificial features compare favorably with previous benchmark work that used a handcrafted feature.
seizure detection genetic programming epilepsy state-space reconstruction feature extraction