Deep Learning-based Real-Time Seizure Detection and Multi-Seizure Classification on Pediatric EEG

Background and ObjectiveTo develop a reliable and accurate seizure detection method using deep learning models capable of detecting and classifying multiple seizure types in real time. MethodsWe retrospectively collected electroencephalography (EEG) recordings, which were acquired as part of routine diagnostic tests for patients aged 3 months to [≤]18 years of age with childhood absence epilepsy, infantile epileptic spasms syndrome, other generalized epilepsy, and focal epilepsy, between January 2018 and December 2022 at Severance Childrens Hospital. We used EEG recordings from both seizure and non-seizure patients, which were downsampled to 200 Hz for real-time seizure detection and multi-classification. ResultsOf the 199 patients (620 seizures), 49 (297 seizures) belonged to the childhood absence epilepsy group, 16 (200 seizures) to the infantile epileptic spasms syndrome group, 14 (76 seizures) to other generalized epilepsy group, 19 (47 seizures) to focal epilepsy group, and 101 to the normal group. The results showed the best overall performance of AUROC 0.98 and APROC of 0.73 with ResNet with Long-Short Term Network and a 12 s sliding window on real-time seizure detection task. Furthermore, ResNet50 without the frequency bands feature extractor showed the best overall weighted performance for multi-class seizure detection with 0.99 AUROC and 0.99 APPRC. DiscussionOur approach proposes robust methods which include EEG preprocessing strategy with real-time detection/classification of multiple seizures, which helps monitor pediatric seizure. The result shows that real-time seizure detection can be effectively applied to real-world clinical datasets from a pediatric epilepsy unit with realistic performance and speed.