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A novel deep learning strategy for classifying different attack patterns for deep brain implants

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Rathore, Heena, Al-Ali, Abdulla Khalid, Mohamed, Amr, Du, Xiaojiang, Guizani, Mohsen·2019·IEEE Access

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Deep brain stimulators (DBSs), a widely used and comprehensively acknowledged restorative methodology, are a type of implantable medical device which uses electrical stimulation to treat neurological disorders. These devices are widely used to treat diseases such as Parkinson, movement disorder, epilepsy, and psychiatric disorders. Security in such devices plays a vital role since it can directly affect the mental, emotional, and physical state of human bodies. In worst-case situations, it can even lead to the patient's death. An adversary in such devices, for instance, can inhibit the normal functionality of the brain by introducing fake stimulation inside the human brain. Nonetheless, the adversary can impair the motor functions, alter impulse control, induce pain, or even modify the emotional pattern of the patient by giving fake stimulations through DBSs. This paper presents a deep learning methodology to predict different attack stimulations in DBSs. The proposed work uses long short-term memory, a type of recurrent network for forecasting and predicting rest tremor velocity. (A type of characteristic observed to evaluate the intensity of the neurological diseases) The prediction helps in diagnosing fake versus genuine stimulations. The effect of deep brain stimulation was tested on Parkinson tremor patients. The proposed methodology was able to detect different types of emulated attack patterns efficiently and thereby notifying the patient about the possible attack.

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  • Assaults on implantable devices, such as brain implants, have been reported to lead to death.

    “For example, assaults on implantable devices, such as brain implants, have been reported to lead to death (Nanayakkara et al., 2019; Rathore et al., 2019).”

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Authors
Rathore, H., Al-Ali, A. K., Mohamed, A., Du, X., & Guizani, M.
Affiliations
  • Qatar University (QA)
  • Temple University (US)
Venue
IEEE Access
Published
2019
Volume
7
Pages
24154-24164
ISSN
2169-3536 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2917460663
Cited by
65
References
42
Citations by year
2026: 2 · 2025: 5 · 2024: 7 · 2023: 11 · 2022: 10 · 2021: 17 · 2020: 12 · 2019: 1
FWCI
6.80
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
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  • IEEE Access (publishedVersion)
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
  • Qatar University QSpace (Qatar University) (submittedVersion)
Funders
Qatar National Research Fund (8-408-2-172)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Neurology › Neurological disorders and treatments
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Networks and Communications › Network Security and Intrusion Detection
Keywords
deep brain stimulator, long short-term memory, Parkinson's disease, deep learning

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