Epilepsy seizure detection using complete ensemble empirical mode decomposition with adaptive noise

Background: Epileptic seizure detection is traditionally performed by visual observation of Electroencephalogram (EEG) signals. Owing to its onerous and time-consuming nature, seizure detection based on visual inspection hinders epilepsy diagnosis, monitoring, and large-scale data analysis in epilepsy research. So, there is a dire need of an automatic seizure detection scheme. Method: An automated scheme for epileptic seizure identification is developed in this study. Here we utilize a signal processing technique, namely-complete ensemble empirical mode decomposition with adaptive noise (CEEMDAN) for epileptic seizure identification. First, we decompose segments of EEG signals into intrinsic mode functions by CEEMDAN. The mode functions are then modeled by normal inverse Gaussian (NIG) pdf parameters. In this work, NIG modeling is employed in conjunction with CEEMDAN…