Electroencephalography (EEG) based epilepsy diagnosis via multiple feature space fusion using shared hidden space-driven multi-view learning

PeerJ Comput Sci. 2024 Mar 7:10:e1874. doi: 10.7717/peerj-cs.1874. eCollection 2024.

Abstract

Epilepsy is a chronic, non-communicable disease caused by paroxysmal abnormal synchronized electrical activity of brain neurons, and is one of the most common neurological diseases worldwide. Electroencephalography (EEG) is currently a crucial tool for epilepsy diagnosis. With the development of artificial intelligence, multi-view learning-based EEG analysis has become an important method for automatic epilepsy recognition because EEG contains difficult types of features such as time-frequency features, frequency-domain features and time-domain features. However, current multi-view learning still faces some challenges, such as the difference between samples of the same class from different views is greater than the difference between samples of different classes from the same view. In view of this, in this study, we propose a shared hidden space-driven multi-view learning algorithm. The algorithm uses kernel density estimation to construct a shared hidden space and combines the shared hidden space with the original space to obtain an expanded space for multi-view learning. By constructing the expanded space and utilizing the information of both the shared hidden space and the original space for learning, the relevant information of samples within and across views can thereby be fully utilized. Experimental results on a dataset of epilepsy provided by the University of Bonn show that the proposed algorithm has promising performance, with an average classification accuracy value of 0.9787, which achieves at least 4% improvement compared to single-view methods.

Keywords: EEG; Epilepsy; Multi-view learning; Shared hidden space.

Grants and funding

This work was supported by the first batch of industry-university cooperation collaborative education projects in 2021 (No. 202101202002), the Natural Science Foundation of Colleges and Universities of Anhui Province (No. KJ2020A0773), and the Key Research Project of Natural Science in universities of Anhui Province (No. KJ2019A1307, 2023AH052269). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.