  Identifying seizure activities in non-stationary electroencephalography (EEG)
is a challenging task, since it is time-consuming, burdensome, and dependent on
expensive human resources and subject to error and bias. A computerized seizure
identification scheme can eradicate the above problems, assist clinicians and
benefit epilepsy research. So far, several attempts were made to develop
automatic systems to help neurophysiologists accurately identify epileptic
seizures. In this research, a fully automated system is presented to
automatically detect the various states of the epileptic seizure. The proposed
method is based on sparse representation-based classification (SRC) theory and
the proposed dictionary learning using electroencephalogram (EEG) signals.
Furthermore, the proposed method does not require additional preprocessing and
extraction of features which is common in the existing methods. The proposed
method reached the sensitivity, specificity and accuracy of 100% in 8 out of 9
scenarios. It is also robust to the measurement noise of level as much as 0 dB.
Compared to state-of-the-art algorithms and other common methods, the proposed
method outperformed them in terms of sensitivity, specificity and accuracy.
Moreover, it includes the most comprehensive scenarios for epileptic seizure
detection, including different combinations of 2 to 5 class scenarios. The
proposed automatic identification of epileptic seizures method can reduce the
burden on medical professionals in analyzing large data through visual
inspection as well as in deprived societies suffering from a shortage of
functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) equipment and specialized
physician.
