Two approaches for detection of abnormalities in EEG signals

In this study, we suggest two interesting approaches which allow good discrimination between normal and abnormal EEG signals. The most interesting advantage of these approaches is that classification relies only on one statistical feature which leads to a great data size reduction and hence a reduced memory space. Discrete wavelets transform (DWT) and smoothed pseudo Wigner-Ville distribution (SPWV) are used along comparison of their performances in exploitation and extraction of features from these signals. By exploiting the independent component analysis algorithm ICA and Support Vector Machines SVM classification, we show the relevance of the statistical variances regardless of the transform: DWT or SPWV. We proved that it is possible to achieve recognition rate of 100% for both DWT and SPWV, but SPWV requires more processing time. Therefore the SPWV is not adaptable to a classification in real-time monitoring of seizure detection.