Detection of Epilepsy Cases in Newborns

Abstract

Epilepsy is a very common worldwide neurological disorder that can affect a person’s quality of life at any age. People with epilepsy typically have recurrent seizures that can lead to injury or in some cases even death. Curing epilepsy requires risky surgery. If not, the patient may be subjected to a long drug treatment associated with lifestyle advice without guarantee of total recovery. However, regardless of the type of treatment performed, late treatment necessarily creates psychological instability in the patient. It is therefore important to be able to diagnose the disease as early as possible if we desire that the patient does not suffer from its consequences on their mental health. That is why the study aims to propose a model for detecting epilepsy in order to be able to identify it as early as possible, especially in newborns. The objective of the article is to propose a model for detecting epilepsy using data from electroencephalogram signals from 10 newborns. This model developed using the extra trees classifier technique offers the possibility of predicting epilepsy in infants with an accuracy of around 99.4%.