A METHOD FOR DETECTING EEG SEIZURES IN A NEWBORN OR A YOUNG CHILD

摘要

The present invention relates to a method for detecting a seizure in a newborn or a young child. The method includes the step of transforming electroencephalogram (EEG) data of the newborn or young child to form a time-frequency representation. Features are extracted from the time- frequency representation using a component linking technique. The feature extraction may involve detecting significant local peaks of the time-frequency representation, and linking the detected significant local peaks together to form linked time-frequency components. The method further includes the step of detecting the seizure using the extracted features.