Affiliation:
1. Division of Cyber-Human Interaction Technologies, University of Guadalajara (UdG), Guadalajara 44100, Mexico
Abstract
Epilepsy is a neurological disease with one of the highest rates of incidence worldwide. Although EEG is a crucial tool for its diagnosis, the manual detection of epileptic seizures is time consuming. Automated methods are needed to streamline this process; although there are already several works that have achieved this, the process by which it is executed remains a black box that prevents understanding of the ways in which machine learning algorithms make their decisions. A state-of-the-art deep learning model for seizure detection and three EEG databases were chosen for this study. The developed models were trained and evaluated under different conditions (i.e., three distinct levels of overlap among the chosen EEG data windows). The classifiers with the best performance were selected, then Shapley Additive Explanations (SHAPs) and Local Interpretable Model-Agnostic Explanations (LIMEs) were employed to estimate the importance value of each EEG channel and the Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient was computed between the EEG features of epileptic signals and the importance values. The results show that the database and training conditions may affect a classifier’s performance. The most significant accuracy rates were 0.84, 0.73, and 0.64 for the CHB-MIT, Siena, and TUSZ EEG datasets, respectively. In addition, most EEG features displayed negligible or low correlation with the importance values. Finally, it was concluded that a correlation between the EEG features and the importance values (generated by SHAP and LIME) may have been absent even for the high-performance models.
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