應用癲癇預測之影像表示腦電訊號演算法與硬體實踐

An EEG Video-based Representation Algorithm for Seizure Prediction and its Hardware Implementation

吳京達(Ching-Da Wu)

指導教授 ： 呂學士

國立臺灣大學/電機資訊學院/電子工程學研究所/碩士(2017年)

https://doi.org/10.6342/NTU201702474

摘要

目前，癲癇是最常被診斷出的神經性障礙之一，其特徵在於自發性發作的突然發生。大約三分之一的患者具有耐藥性癲癇，這意味著他們的癲癇發作不能用藥物控制。在這種情況下，癲癇預測系統至關重要，因為它們允許患者在突發發作之前避免危險的活動並使自己處於安全的環境中。
腦電圖用於診斷癲癇，檢測或預測癲癇發作。到目前為止，醫學專家們仍然缺乏可靠的算法，用於識別發作發生機率增加的時期。因此，開發一種依賴和可靠的算法，能夠對癲癇發作之前的一段時期的數據和大腦正常活動時期的數據進行分類至關重要。這是具有挑戰性的，因為腦電圖上的癲癇發作表現在相同患者的不同時期和不同患者之間都相差甚大。
我們的癲癇預測演算法為基於影像之腦電信號特徵表示和遞歸卷積神經網絡。通過同時捕獲頻譜、時間和空間信息，我們的遞歸卷積神經網絡能夠學習到空間不變性的癲癇預發作時期腦電訊號特徵。此外，我們提出了一種基於我們演算法的癲癇預測系統。本論文中討論了相關的系統概述和硬體實現細節。

關鍵字

癲癇預測 ； 影像表示之腦電信號特徵 ； 遞歸卷積神經網絡 ； 硬體實現

並列摘要

Epilepsy is one of the most commonly diagnosed neurological disorders, which is characterized by the abrupt occurrence of spontaneously seizure. About 1 of the patients has a drug-resistant epilepsy. In such cases, seizure forecasting systems are vitally important, since they allow patients to avoid dangerous activities and bring themselves in a safe environment before a seizure with sudden onset. EEG is used for diagnosing epilepsy and detecting or predicting seizures. So far, practitioners still lack reliable algorithms for identifying periods of increased probability of seizure occurrence. Thus, developing a reliant and robust algorithm, able to classify data clips of a pre-seizure brain activity covering a period prior to a seizure onset and data clips of inter-seizure activity is crucial. This is challenging because seizure manifestations on EEG are extremely variable both inter- and intra-patient. Our approach to the seizure prediction is based on video-based EEG representation and recurrent convolutional neural network. By simultaneously capturing spectral, temporal and spatial information our recurrent convolutional neural network learns a general spatially invariant representation of a seizure. In addition, we propose a seizure prediction system based on our algorithm. Its system overview and hardware implementation are discussed in this thesis.

並列關鍵字

seizure prediction ； EEG video-based representation ； recurrent convolutional neural network ； hardware implementation

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