Publications related to Self-Aware Anomaly-Detection for Epilepsy Monitoring on Low-Power Wearable Electrocardiographic Devices

Ambulatory seizure detection

Purpose of review: To review recent advances in the field of seizure detection in ambulatory patients with epilepsy. Recent findings: Recent studies have shown that wrist or arm wearable sensors, using 3D-accelerometry, electrodermal activity or photopleth ...

2024

Resource-Efficient Continual Learning for Personalized Online Seizure Detection

David Atienza Alonso, Giovanni Ansaloni, José Angel Miranda Calero, Jonathan Dan, Amirhossein Shahbazinia, Flavio Ponzina

Epilepsy, a major neurological disease, requires careful diagnosis and treatment. However, the detection of epileptic seizures remains a significant challenge. Current clinical practice relies on expert analysis of EEG signals, a process that is time-consu ...

IEEE2024

Integrated Wireless Power, Data Communication, and Thermal Sensing System for Autonomous Multisite Brain Implants

Implanted medical devices (IMDs) have been widely developed to support the monitoring and recording of biological data inside the body or brain. Wirelessly powered IMDs, a subset of implantable electronics, have been proposed to eliminate the limitations r ...

EPFL2024

Hardware Implementation of Digital Signal Processing Algorithms for Programmable Epilepsy Control Systems

Keyvan Farhang Razi

Epilepsy is a common chronic neurological disorder that causes recurring seizures and affects more than 50 million people worldwide. Implantable medical devices (IMDs) are regarded as effective tools to cure patients who suffer from refractory epilepsy. Se ...

EPFL2023

Enhancing Epileptic Seizure Detection with EEG Feature Embeddings

Mahsa Shoaran, Bingzhao Zhu, Arman Zarei

Epilepsy is one of the most prevalent brain disorders that disrupts the lives of millions worldwide. For patients with drug-resistant seizures, there exist implantable devices capable of monitoring neural activity, promptly triggering neurostimulation to r ...

ArXiv2023

Hyperdimensional computing for biosignal monitoring: Applications for epilepsy detection

Una Pale

Hyperdimensional (HD) computing is a novel approach to machine learning inspired by neuroscience, which uses vectors in a hyper-dimensional space to represent data and models. This approach has gained significant interest in recent years with applications ...

EPFL2023

Combined use of intraoperative MRI and awake tailored microsurgical resection to respect functional neural networks: preliminary experience

Constantin Tuleasca

INTRODUCTION: The combined use of intraoperative MRI and awake surgery is a tailored microsurgical resection to respect functional neural networks (mainly the language and motor ones). Intraoperative MRI has been classically considered to increase the exte ...

2023

Structure-function coupling increases during interictal spikes in temporal lobe epilepsy: A graph signal processing study

Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville, Maria Giulia Preti, Patric Hagmann

Objective: Structure-function coupling remains largely unknown in brain disorders. We studied this coupling during interictal epileptic discharges (IEDs), using graph signal processing in temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE). ...

ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD2023

Multi-Centroid Hyperdimensional Computing Approach for Epileptic Seizure Detection

David Atienza Alonso, Tomas Teijeiro Campo, Una Pale

Long-term monitoring of patients with epilepsy presents a challenging problem from the engineering perspective of real-time detection and wearable devices design. It requires new solutions that allow continuous unobstructed monitoring and reliable detectio ...

2022

Personalized seizure signature: An interpretable approach to false alarm reduction for long‐term epileptic seizure detection

David Atienza Alonso, Amir Aminifar, Tomas Teijeiro Campo, Dionisije Sopic

Objective Long-term automatic detection of focal seizures remains one of the major challenges in epilepsy due to the unacceptably high number of false alarms from state-of-the-art methods. Our aim was to investigate to what extent a new patient-specific ap ...

2022