Browsing by Author "Nait-Ali, Amine"

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ECG features extraction using AC/DCT for biometric
(IEEE, 2017) Cherifi, Dalila; Adjerid, Chaouki; Boukerma, Billal; Zebbiche, Badreddine; Nait-Ali, Amine
EEG signal feature extraction and classification for epilepsy detection
(Slovene Society Informatika, 2022) Cherifi, Dalila; Falkoun, Noussaiba; Ouakouak, Ferial; Boubchir, Larbi; Nait-Ali, Amine
Epilepsy is a neurological disorder of the central nervous system, characterized by sudden seizures caused by abnormal electrical discharges in the brain. Electroencephalogram (EEG) is the most common technique used for Epilepsy diagnosis. Generally, it is done by the manual inspection of the EEG recordings of active seizure periods (ictal). Several techniques have been proposed throughout the years to automate this process. In this study, we have developed three different approaches to extract features from the filtered EEG signals. The first approach was to extract eight statistical features directly from the time-domain signal. In the second approach, we have used only the frequency domain information by applying the Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) to the EEG signals then extracting two statistical features from the lower coefficients. In the last approach, we have used a tool that combines both time and frequency domain information, which is the Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT). Six different wavelet families have been tested with their different orders resulting in 37 wavelets. The first three decomposition levels were tested with every wavelet. Instead of feeding the coefficients directly to the classifier, we summarized them in 16 statistical features. The extracted features are then fed to three different classifiers k-Nearest Neighbor (k-NN), Support Vector Machine (SVM), and Artificial Neural Network (ANN) to perform two binary classification scenarios: healthy versus epileptic (mainly from interictal activity), and seizure-free versus ictal. We have used a benchmark database, the Bonn database, which consists of five different sets. In the first scenario, we have taken six different combinations of the available data. While in the second scenario, we have taken five combinations. For Epilepsy detection (healthy vs epileptic), the first approach performed badly. Using the DCT improved the results, but the best accuracies were obtained with the DWT-based approach. For seizure detection, the three methods performed quite well. However, the third method had the best performance and was better than many state-of-the-art methods in terms of accuracy. After carrying out the experiments on the whole EEG signal, we separated the five rhythms and applied the DWT on them with the Daubechies7 (db7) wavelet for feature extraction. We have observed that close accuracies to those recorded before can be achieved with only the Delta rhythm in the first scenario (Epilepsy detection) and the Beta rhythm in the second scenario (seizure detection)
Fusion of face recognition methods at score level
(IEEE, 2017) Cherifi, Dalila; Cherfaoui, Fateh; Yacini, Si Nabil; Nait-Ali, Amine
Multi-class EEG signal classification for epileptic seizure diagnosis
(Springer, 2020) Cherifi, Dalila; Afoun, Laid; Iloul, Zakaria; Boukerma, Billal; Adjerid, Chaouki; Boubchir, Larbi; Nait-Ali, Amine
EEG signal recordings are increasingly replacing the old methods of diagnosis in medical field of many neurological disorders. Our contribution in this article is the study and development of EEG signal classification algorithms for epilepsy diagnosis using one rhythm; for classification, an optimum classifier is proposed with only when used one rhythm so that both execution time and number of features are reduced. We used wavelet packet decomposition (WPD) to extract the five rhythms of brain activity from the public Epilepsy-EEG recordings in order to represent each signal with features vector; then we applied on it the well-known classification methods. A statistical study is done to validate the different algorithms