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Ambulatory seizure detection

Jonathan Dan

Purpose of review: To review recent advances in the field of seizure detection in ambulatory patients with epilepsy. Recent findings: Recent studies have shown that wrist or arm wearable sensors, using 3D-accelerometry, electrodermal activity or photopleth ...

2024

Integrated Wireless Power, Data Communication, and Thermal Sensing System for Autonomous Multisite Brain Implants

Mohammad Javad Karimi

Implanted medical devices (IMDs) have been widely developed to support the monitoring and recording of biological data inside the body or brain. Wirelessly powered IMDs, a subset of implantable electronics, have been proposed to eliminate the limitations r ...

EPFL2024

Enhancing Epileptic Seizure Detection with EEG Feature Embeddings

Mahsa Shoaran, Bingzhao Zhu

Epilepsy is one of the most prevalent brain disorders that disrupts the lives of millions worldwide. For patients with drug-resistant seizures, there exist implantable devices capable of monitoring neural activity, promptly triggering neurostimulation to r ...

ArXiv2023

Hardware Implementation of Digital Signal Processing Algorithms for Programmable Epilepsy Control Systems

Keyvan Farhang Razi

Epilepsy is a common chronic neurological disorder that causes recurring seizures and affects more than 50 million people worldwide. Implantable medical devices (IMDs) are regarded as effective tools to cure patients who suffer from refractory epilepsy. Se ...

EPFL2023

Structure-function coupling increases during interictal spikes in temporal lobe epilepsy: A graph signal processing study

Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville, Patric Hagmann, Maria Giulia Preti

Objective: Structure-function coupling remains largely unknown in brain disorders. We studied this coupling during interictal epileptic discharges (IEDs), using graph signal processing in temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE). ...

ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD2023

INCLASS: Incremental Classification Strategy for Self-Aware Epileptic Seizure Detection

David Atienza Alonso, Giovanni Ansaloni, Tomas Teijeiro Campo

Wearable Health Companions allow the unobtrusive monitoring of patients affected by chronic conditions. In particular, by acquiring and interpreting bio-signals, they enable the detection of acute episodes in cardiac and neurological ailments. Nevertheless ...

IEEE2022

Epileptic Seizure Detection With Patient-Specific Feature and Channel Selection for Low-power Applications

Alexandre Schmid, Keyvan Farhang Razi

An accurate epileptic seizure detector using intracranial electroencephalography (iEEG) recordings, suitable for low-power wearable/implantable applications, is presented. Eleven time-domain features with low hardware complexity are employed in the feature ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022

Multi-Centroid Hyperdimensional Computing Approach for Epileptic Seizure Detection

David Atienza Alonso, Tomas Teijeiro Campo, Una Pale

Long-term monitoring of patients with epilepsy presents a challenging problem from the engineering perspective of real-time detection and wearable devices design. It requires new solutions that allow continuous unobstructed monitoring and reliable detectio ...

2022

Exploration of Hyperdimensional Computing Strategies for Enhanced Learning on Epileptic Seizure Detection

David Atienza Alonso, Tomas Teijeiro Campo, Una Pale

Wearable and unobtrusive monitoring and prediction of epileptic seizures has the potential to significantly increase the life quality of patients, but is still an unreached goal due to challenges of real-time detection and wearable devices design. Hyperdim ...

2022

Personalized seizure signature: An interpretable approach to false alarm reduction for long‐term epileptic seizure detection

David Atienza Alonso, Amir Aminifar, Tomas Teijeiro Campo, Dionisije Sopic

Objective Long-term automatic detection of focal seizures remains one of the major challenges in epilepsy due to the unacceptably high number of false alarms from state-of-the-art methods. Our aim was to investigate to what extent a new patient-specific ap ...

2022

Two-stage Hardware-Friendly Epileptic Seizure Detection Method with a Dynamic Feature Selection

Alexandre Schmid, Keyvan Farhang Razi

A novel low-complexity method of detecting epileptic seizures from intracranial encephalography (iEEG) signals is presented. In the proposed algorithm, coastline, energy and nonlinear energy features of iEEG signals are extracted in a patient-specific two- ...

IEEE2021

An EEG-based methodology for the estimation of functional brain connectivity networks: Application to the analysis of newborn EEG seizure

Amir Hossein Omidvarnia

This study presents a new methodology for obtaining functional brain networks (FBNs) using multichannel scalp EEG recordings. The developed methodology extracts pair-wise phase synchrony between EEG electrodes to obtain FBNs at delta, theta, and alpha-band ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2021

Self-Aware Anomaly-Detection for Epilepsy Monitoring on Low-Power Wearable Electrocardiographic Devices

David Atienza Alonso, Amir Aminifar, Tomas Teijeiro Campo, Farnaz Forooghifar

Low-power wearable technologies offer a promising solution to pervasive epilepsy monitoring by removing the constraints concerning time and location, on one hand, and fulfilling long-term tracking, on the other hand. In the case of epileptic seizures, as t ...

2021

Interpreting deep learning models for epileptic seizure detection on EEG signals

David Atienza Alonso, Leila Cammoun, Marina Zapater Sancho, Tomas Teijeiro Campo, Valentin Alexandre Guy Gabeff

While Deep Learning (DL) is often considered the state-of-the art for Artificial Intelligence-based medical decision support, it remains sparsely implemented in clinical practice and poorly trusted by clinicians due to insufficient interpretability of neur ...

2021

A modeling framework to understand and optimize ultrasound neuromodulation

Théo Lemaire

Over the last decade, Low Intensity Focused Ultrasound Stimulation (LIFUS) has emerged as an attractive technology to modulate the activity of deep neural targets without invasive procedures. However, the underlying mechanisms by which ultrasonic waves can ...

EPFL2021

Automatic detection of generalized paroxysmal fast activity in interictal EEG using time-frequency analysis

Amir Hossein Omidvarnia

Objective: Markup of generalized interictal epileptiform discharges (IEDs) on EEG is an important step in the diagnosis and characterization of epilepsy. However, manual EEG markup is a time-consuming, subjective, and the specialized task where the human r ...

2021

Monitoring of Cardiovascular and Neurological Diseases Using Wearable Devices

Dionisije Sopic

In this thesis, I focus on monitoring of patients suffering from cardiovascular and neurological diseases through the use of wearable devices. The main diseases considered in this thesis are atrial fibrillation (AF), myocardial infarction (MI), and epileps ...

EPFL2020

EpilepsyGAN: Synthetic Epileptic Brain Activities with Privacy Preservation

David Atienza Alonso, Amir Aminifar, Alireza Amirshahi, Damián Pascual Ortiz

Epilepsy is a chronic neurological disorder affecting more than 65 million people worldwide and manifested by recurrent unprovoked seizures. The unpredictability of seizures not only degrades the quality of life of the patients, but it can also be life-thr ...

2021

Noninvasive detection of focal seizures in ambulatory patients

David Atienza Alonso, Leila Cammoun, Leila Faiza Ben Hamida Cammoun

Reliably detecting focal seizures without secondary generalization during daily life activities, chronically, using convenient portable or wearable devices, would offer patients with active epilepsy a number of potential benefits, such as providing more re ...

2020

Robust Epileptic Seizure Detection on Wearable Systems with Reduced False-Alarm Rate

David Atienza Alonso, Amir Aminifar, Renato Zanetti

Epilepsy affects more than 50 million people and ranks among the most common neurological diseases worldwide. Despite advances in treatment, one-third of patients still suffer from refractory epilepsy. Wearable devices for real-time patient monitoring can ...

IEEE2020