Classification of EEG signals for detection of epileptic seizure activities based on LBP descriptor of time-frequency images

This paper presents novel time-frequency (t-f) feature extraction approach for the classification of EEG signals for Epileptic seizure activities detection. The proposed features are based on Local Binary Patterns (LBP) descriptor extracted from t-f representation of EEG signals processed as a textured image. Compared to most previous t-f approaches were based only on features derived from the instantaneous frequency and the energies of EEG signals generated from different spectral sub-bands, the proposed t-f features are capable to describe visually the epileptic seizure activity patterns observed in t-f image of EEG signals. The results obtained on real EEG data show that the use of t-f LBP descriptor-based features achieve an overall classification accuracy up to 99% for 150 EEG signals using 2-class SVM classifier. This is confirmed by ROC curve analysis.