Out-of-hospital multimodal seizure detection : a pilot study

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Background: Out-of-hospital seizure detection aims to provide clinicians and patients with objective seizure documentation in efforts to improve the clinical management of epilepsy. In-patient studies have found that combining different modalities helps improve the seizure detection accuracy. In this study, the objective was to evaluate the viability of out-of-hospital seizure detection using wearable ECG, accelerometry and behind-the-ear electroencephalography (EEG). Furthermore, we examined the signal quality of out-of-hospital EEG recordings.

Methods: Seventeen patients were monitored for up to 5 days. A support vector machine based seizure detection algorithm was applied using both in-patient seizures and out-of-hospital electrographic seizures in one patient. To assess the content of noise in the EEG signal, we compared the root-mean-square (RMS) of the recordings to a reference threshold derived from manually categorised segments of EEG recordings.

Results: In total 1427 hours of continuous EEG was recorded. In one patient, we identified 15 electrographic focal impaired awareness seizures with a motor component. After training our algorithm on in-patient data, we found a sensitivity of 91% and a false alarm rate (FAR) of 18/24 hours for the detection of out-of-hospital seizures using a combination of EEG and ECG recordings. We estimated that 30.1% of the recorded EEG signal was physiological EEG, with an RMS value within the reference threshold.

Conclusion: We found that detection of out-of-hospital focal impaired awareness seizures with a motor component is possible and that applying multiple modalities improves the diagnostic accuracy compared with unimodal EEG. However, significant challenges remain regarding a high FAR and that only 30.1% of the EEG data represented usable signal.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:5

Enthalten in:

BMJ neurology open - 5(2023), 2 vom: 27., Seite e000442

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Nielsen, Jonas Munch [VerfasserIn]
Kristinsdóttir, Ástrós Eir [VerfasserIn]
Zibrandtsen, Ivan Chrilles [VerfasserIn]
Masulli, Paolo [VerfasserIn]
Ballegaard, Martin [VerfasserIn]
Andersen, Tobias Søren [VerfasserIn]
Kjær, Troels Wesenberg [VerfasserIn]

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EEG
EPILEPSY
Journal Article
NEUROPHYSIOLOGY

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Date Revised 08.08.2023

published: Electronic-eCollection

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.1136/bmjno-2023-000442

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM360467261