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MR-EEGWaveNet: Multiresolutional EEGWaveNet for Seizure Detection from Long EEG Recordings

Kazi Mahmudul Hassan, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan, Xuyang Zhao, RIKEN Center for Interdisciplinary Theoretical and Mathematical Sciences, Japan AND Chiba University, Japan, Hidenori Sugano, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Japan, Toshihisa Tanaka, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan, tanakat@cc.tuat.ac.jp
 
Suggested Citation
Kazi Mahmudul Hassan, Xuyang Zhao, Hidenori Sugano and Toshihisa Tanaka (2025), "MR-EEGWaveNet: Multiresolutional EEGWaveNet for Seizure Detection from Long EEG Recordings", APSIPA Transactions on Signal and Information Processing: Vol. 14: No. 1, e32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1561/116.20250030

Publication Date: 17 Nov 2025
© 2025 K. M. Hassan, X. Zhao, H. Sugano, and T. Tanaka
 
Subjects
Pattern recognition and learning,  Biological and biomedical signal processing,  Multiresolution signal processing,  Nonlinear signal processing,  Statistical signal processing,  Statistical/Machine learning,  Classification and prediction,  Deep learning
 
Keywords
Epilepsyelectroencephalogram (EEG)seizuredeep learningEEGWaveNet
 

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Introduction 
Previous Works 
Dataset 
Proposed Model 
Experiment 
Results 
Discussion 
Conclusion 
Appendix 
References 

Abstract

Feature engineering for generalized seizure detection models remains a significant challenge. Recently proposed models show variable performance depending on the training data and remain ineffective at accurately distinguishing artifacts from seizure data. In this study, we propose a novel end-to-end model, “Multiresolutional EEGWaveNet (MR-EEGWaveNet),” which efficiently distinguishes seizure events from background electroencephalogram (EEG) and artifacts/noise by capturing both temporal dependencies across different time frames and spatial relationships between channels. The model has three modules: convolution, feature extraction, and predictor. The convolution module extracts features through depth-wise and spatio-temporal convolution. The feature extraction module individually reduces the feature dimension extracted from EEG segments and their sub-segments. Subsequently, the extracted features are concatenated into a single vector for classification using a fully connected classifier called the predictor module. In addition, an anomaly score-based post-classification processing technique is introduced to reduce the false-positive rates of the model. Experimental results are reported and analyzed using different parameter settings and datasets (Siena (public) and Juntendo (private)). The proposed MR-EEGWaveNet significantly outperformed the conventional non-multiresolution approach, improving the F1 scores from 0.177 to 0.336 on Siena and 0.327 to 0.488 on Juntendo, with precision gains of 15.9% and 20.62%, respectively.

DOI:10.1561/116.20250030