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Intra- and Inter-Subject Perspectives on the Detection of Focal Onset Motor Seizures in Epilepsy Patients

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Böttcher, Sebastian, Bruno, Elisa, Epitashvili, Nino, Dümpelmann, Matthias, Zabler, Nicolas, Glasstetter, Martin, Ticcinelli, Valentina, Thorpe, Sarah +4 more·2022·Sensors

Abstract

Focal onset epileptic seizures are highly heterogeneous in their clinical manifestations, and a robust seizure detection across patient cohorts has to date not been achieved. Here, we assess and discuss the potential of supervised machine learning models for the detection of focal onset motor seizures by means of a wrist-worn wearable device, both in a personalized context as well as across patients. Wearable data were recorded in-hospital from patients with epilepsy at two epilepsy centers. Accelerometry, electrodermal activity, and blood volume pulse data were processed and features for each of the biosignal modalities were calculated. Following a leave-one-out approach, a gradient tree boosting machine learning model was optimized and tested in an intra-subject and inter-subject evaluation. In total, 20 seizures from 9 patients were included and we report sensitivities of 67% to 100% and false alarm rates of down to 0.85 per 24 h in the individualized assessment. Conversely, for an inter-subject seizure detection methodology tested on an out-of-sample data set, an optimized model could only achieve a sensitivity of 75% at a false alarm rate of 13.4 per 24 h. We demonstrate that robustly detecting focal onset motor seizures with tonic or clonic movements from wearable data may be possible for individuals, depending on specific seizure manifestations.

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Böttcher, S., Bruno, E., Epitashvili, N., Dümpelmann, M., Zabler, N., Glasstetter, M., Ticcinelli, V., Thorpe, S., Lees, S., Van Laerhoven, K., Richardson, M. P., & Schulze-Bonhage, A.
Affiliations
  • University of Freiburg (DE)
  • King's College London (GB)
  • UCB Pharma (Belgium) (BE)
  • Ubiquitous Computing, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Siegen, 57076 Siegen, Germany
  • Epilepsy Center, Department of Neurosurgery, Medical Center—University of Freiburg, 79106 Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
Corresponding author
Böttcher, Sebastian
Venue
Sensors
Publisher
MDPI AG
Published
2022-04-26
Volume
22
Issue
9
Pages
3318
ISSN
1424-8220 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W4224944506
Cited by
23
References
56
Citations by year
2026: 4 · 2025: 8 · 2024: 4 · 2023: 4 · 2022: 3
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2.45
Type
journal article
Language
en
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  • Sensors (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Research Portal (King's College London) (publishedVersion, other-oa)
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
Funders
Innovative Medicines Initiative 2 (115902)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Epilepsy research and treatment
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Context-Aware Activity Recognition Systems
Keywords
seizure detection, epilepsy, wearable sensors, wrist-worn accelerometry, electrodermal activity, blood volume pulse, gradient boosting decision tree
MeSH terms
Wearable Electronic Devices, Electroencephalography, Epilepsy, Epilepsies, Partial, Humans, Seizures, Accelerometry

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