CNN-Based Pattern Classifiers for Precise Identification of Perinatal EEG Biomarkers of Brain Injury in Preterm Neonates

Author:

Abbasi Hamid12ORCID,Battin Malcolm R.3,Rowe Deborah3,Butler Robyn3,Gunn Alistair J.1ORCID,Bennet Laura1

Affiliation:

1. Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Auckland, Auckland 1023, New Zealand

2. Auckland Bioengineering Institute (ABI), University of Auckland, Auckland 1010, New Zealand

3. Department of Newborn Services, Auckland City Hospital, Auckland 1023, New Zealand

Abstract

Electroencephalographic (EEG) monitoring is important for the diagnosis of hypoxic-ischemic (HI) brain injury in high-risk preterm infants. EEG monitoring is limited by the reliance on expert clinical observation. However, high-risk preterm infants often do not present observable symptoms due to their frailty. Thus, there is an urgent need to find better ways to automatically quantify changes in the EEG these high-risk babies. This article is a first step towards this goal. This innovative study demonstrates the effectiveness of deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) pattern classifiers, trained on spectrally-detailed Wavelet Scalograms (WS) images derived from neonatal EEG sharp waves—a potential translational HI biomarker, at birth. The WS-CNN classifiers exhibit outstanding performance in identifying HI sharp waves within an exclusive clinical EEG recordings dataset of preterm infants immediately after birth. The work has impact as it demonstrates exceptional high accuracy of 99.34 ± 0.51% cross-validated across 13,624 EEG patterns over 48 h raw EEG at low 256 Hz clinical sampling rates. Furthermore, the WS-CNN pattern classifier is able to accurately identify the sharp-waves within the most critical first hours of birth (n = 8, 4:36 ± 1:09 h), regardless of potential morphological changes influenced by different treatments/drugs or the evolutionary ‘timing effects’ of the injury. This underscores its reliability as a tool for the identification and quantification of clinical EEG sharp-wave biomarkers at bedside.

Funder

Health Research Council of New Zealand

Publisher

MDPI AG

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