An Ultra-Low Power Smart Headband for Real-Time Epileptic Seizure Detection

Shih-Kai Lin; Istiqomah; Li-Chun Wang; Chin-Yew Lin; Herming Chiueh

doi:10.1109/JTEHM.2018.2861882

An Ultra-Low Power Smart Headband for Real-Time Epileptic Seizure Detection

IEEE J Transl Eng Health Med. 2018 Aug 17:6:2700410. doi: 10.1109/JTEHM.2018.2861882. eCollection 2018.

Authors

Shih-Kai Lin¹, Istiqomah¹, Li-Chun Wang¹, Chin-Yew Lin², Herming Chiueh¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Electrical and Computer EngineeringNational Chiao Tung UniversityHsinchu30010Taiwan.
² Microsoft Research AsiaBeijing100080China.

Abstract

In this paper, the design of a smart headband for epileptic seizure detection is presented. The proposed headband consists of four key components: 1) an analog front-end circuitry; 2) an epileptic seizure detection tag (ESDT); 3) a Bluetooth low-power chip; and 4) customized electrodes. All the above components are integrated into a fabric headband with only 50.3 g. The smart headband system dissipates 55.89 mW. The epileptic seizure detection algorithm inside ESDT is validated by using Boston Children's Hospital's CHB-MIT scalp EEG clinical database with the detection rate of 92.68% and the false alarm of 0.527/h. We develop a service APP connected to the cloud so that the patients' health condition can be recorded and then referenced by doctors for further diagnosis or research.

Keywords: Epileptic seizure detection; Internet of Things (IoT); system-on-chip (SoC); wearable; wireless transmission.

Grants and funding

This work was supported in part by Microsoft Research Asia and the Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan, under Contract MOST 106-2314-B-002-184, MOST 106-2221-E-009-191, MOST 107-2314-B002-003, and MOST 107-2221-E-009-134.