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Clinical Neurophysiology | 2005

Long-term prospective on-line real-time seizure prediction

Leonidas D. Iasemidis; Deng-Shan Shiau; Panos M. Pardalos; Wanpracha Art Chaovalitwongse; K. Narayanan; Awadhesh Prasad; Konstantinos Tsakalis; Paul R. Carney; James Chris Sackellares

OBJECTIVE Epilepsy, one of the most common neurological disorders, constitutes a unique opportunity to study the dynamics of spatiotemporal state transitions in real, complex, nonlinear dynamical systems. In this study, we evaluate the performance of a prospective on-line real-time seizure prediction algorithm in two patients from a common database. METHODS We previously demonstrated that measures of chaos and angular frequency, estimated from electroencephalographic (EEG) signals recorded at critical sites in the cerebral cortex, progressively converge (i.e. become dynamically entrained) as the epileptic brain transits from the asymptomatic interictal state to the ictal state (seizure) (Iasemidis et al., 2001, 2002a, 2003a). This observation suggested the possibility of developing algorithms to predict seizures well ahead of their occurrences. One of the central points in those investigations was the application of optimization theory, specifically quadratic zero-one programming, for the selection of the critical cortical sites. This current study combines that observation with a dynamical entrainment detection method to prospectively predict epileptic seizures. The algorithm was tested in two patients with long-term (107.54h) and multi-seizure EEG data B and C (Lehnertz and Litt, 2004). RESULTS Analysis from the 2 test patients resulted in the prediction of up to 91.3% of the impending 23 seizures, about 89+/-15min prior to seizure onset, with an average false warning rate of one every 8.27h and an allowable prediction horizon of 3h. CONCLUSIONS The algorithm provides warning of impending seizures prospectively and in real time, that is, it constitutes an on-line and real-time seizure prediction scheme. SIGNIFICANCE These results suggest that the proposed seizure prediction algorithm could be used in novel diagnostic and therapeutic applications in epileptic patients.


Epilepsy Research | 2005

Performance of a seizure warning algorithm based on the dynamics of intracranial EEG

Wanpracha Art Chaovalitwongse; Leonidas D. Iasemidis; Panos M. Pardalos; Paul R. Carney; Deng-Shan Shiau; James Chris Sackellares

During the past decade, several studies have demonstrated experimental evidence that temporal lobe seizures are preceded by changes in dynamical properties (both spatial and temporal) of electroencephalograph (EEG) signals. In this study, we evaluate a method, based on chaos theory and global optimization techniques, for detecting pre-seizure states by monitoring the spatio-temporal changes in the dynamics of the EEG signal. The method employs the estimation of the short-term maximum Lyapunov exponent (STL(max)), a measure of the order (chaoticity) of a dynamical system, to quantify the EEG dynamics per electrode site. A global optimization technique is also employed to identify critical electrode sites that are involved in the seizure development. An important practical result of this study was the development of an automated seizure warning system (ASWS). The algorithm was tested in continuous, long-term EEG recordings, 3-14 days in duration, obtained from 10 patients with refractory temporal lobe epilepsy. In this analysis, for each patient, the EEG recordings were divided into training and testing datasets. We used the first portion of the data that contained half of the seizures to train the algorithm, where the algorithm achieved a sensitivity of 76.12% with an overall false prediction rate of 0.17h(-1). With the optimal parameter setting obtained from the training phase, the prediction performance of the algorithm during the testing phase achieved a sensitivity of 68.75% with an overall false prediction rate of 0.15h(-1). The results of this study confirm our previous observations from a smaller number of patients: the development of automated seizure warning devices for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes is feasible and practically useful.


systems man and cybernetics | 2007

On the Time Series

Wanpracha Art Chaovalitwongse; Ya-Ju Fan; Rajesh C. Sachdeo

Epilepsy is one of the most common brain disorders, but the dynamical transitions to neurological dysfunctions of epilepsy are not well understood in current neuroscience research. Uncontrolled epilepsy poses a significant burden to society due to associated healthcare cost to treat and control the unpredictable and spontaneous occurrence of seizures. The objective of this study is to develop and present a novel classification technique that is used to classify normal and abnormal (epileptic) brain activities through quantitative analyses of electroencephalogram (EEG) recordings. Such technique is based on the integration of sophisticated approaches from data mining and signal processing research (i.e., chaos theory, k-nearest neighbor, and statistical time series analysis). The proposed technique can correctly classify normal and abnormal EEGs with a sensitivity of 81.29% and a specificity of 72.86%, on average, across ten patients. Experimental results suggest that the proposed technique can be used to develop abnormal brain activity classification for detecting seizure precursors. Success of this study demonstrates that the proposed technique can excavate hidden patterns/relationships in EEGs and give greater understanding of brain functions from a system perspective, which will advance current diagnosis and treatment of epilepsy.


Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology | 2006

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J. Chris Sackellares; Deng-Shan Shiau; Jose C. Principe; Mark C. K. Yang; Linda K. Dance; Wichai Suharitdamrong; Wanpracha Art Chaovalitwongse; Panos M. Pardalos; Leonidas D. Iasemidis

Epileptic seizures of mesial temporal origin are preceded by changes in signal properties detectable in the intracranial EEG. A series of computer algorithms designed to detect the changes in spatiotemporal dynamics of the EEG signals and to warn of impending seizures have been developed. In this study, we evaluated the performance of a novel adaptive threshold seizure warning algorithm (ATSWA), which detects the convergence in Short-Term Maximum Lyapunov Exponent (STLmax) values among critical intracranial EEG electrode sites, as a function of different seizure warning horizons (SWHs). The ATSWA algorithm was compared to two statistical based naïve prediction algorithms (periodic and random) that do not employ EEG information. For comparison purposes, three performance indices “area above ROC curve” (AAC), “predictability power” (PP) and “fraction of time under false warnings” (FTF) were defined and the effect of SWHs on these indices was evaluated. The results demonstrate that this EEG based seizure warning method performed significantly better (P < 0.05) than both naïve prediction schemes. Our results also show that the performance indexes are dependent on the length of the SWH. These results suggest that the EEG based analysis has the potential to be a useful tool for seizure warning.


Operations Research Letters | 2004

-Nearest Neighbor Classification of Abnormal Brain Activity

Wanpracha Art Chaovalitwongse; Panos M. Pardalos; Oleg A. Prokopyev

We consider the reduction of multi-quadratic 0-1 programming problems to linear mixed 0-1 programming problems. In this reduction, the number of additional continuous variables is O(kn) (n is the number of initial 0-1 variables and k is the number of quadratic constraints). The number of 0-1 variables remains the same.


Mathematical Programming | 2004

Predictability analysis for an automated seizure prediction algorithm.

Panos M. Pardalos; Wanpracha Art Chaovalitwongse; Leonidas D. Iasemidis; J. Chris Sackellares; Deng-Shan Shiau; Paul R. Carney; Oleg A. Prokopyev; Vitaliy A. Yatsenko

Abstract.There is growing evidence that temporal lobe seizures are preceded by a preictal transition, characterized by a gradual dynamical change from asymptomatic interictal state to seizure. We herein report the first prospective analysis of the online automated algorithm for detecting the preictal transition in ongoing EEG signals. Such, the algorithm constitutes a seizure warning system. The algorithm estimates STLmax, a measure of the order or disorder of the signal, of EEG signals recorded from individual electrode sites. The optimization techniques were employed to select critical brain electrode sites that exhibit the preictal transition for the warning of epileptic seizures. Specifically, a quadratically constrained quadratic 0-1 programming problem is formulated to identify critical electrode sites. The automated seizure warning algorithm was tested in continuous, long-term EEG recordings obtained from 5 patients with temporal lobe epilepsy. For individual patient, we use the first half of seizures to train the parameter settings, which is evaluated by ROC (Receiver Operating Characteristic) curve analysis. With the best parameter setting, the algorithm applied to all cases predicted an average of 91.7% of seizures with an average false prediction rate of 0.196 per hour. These results indicate that it may be possible to develop automated seizure warning devices for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes.


Computers & Operations Research | 2012

A new linearization technique for multi-quadratic 0-1 programming problems

Tao Zhang; Wanpracha Art Chaovalitwongse; Yuejie Zhang

In parallel with the growth of both domestic and international economies, there have been substantial efforts in making manufacturing and service industries more environmental friendly (i.e., promotion of environmental protection). Today manufacturers have become much more concerned with coordinating the operations of manufacturing (for new products) and recycling (for reuse of resources) together with scheduling the forward/reverse flows of goods over a supply chain network. The stochastic travel-time vehicle routing problem with simultaneous pick-ups and deliveries (STT-VRPSPD) is one of the major operations problems in bi-directional supply chain research. The STT-VRPSPD is a very challenging and difficult combinatorial optimization problem due to many reasons such as a non-monotonic increase or decrease of vehicle capacity and the stochasticity of travel times. In this paper, we develop a new scatter search (SS) approach for the STT-VRPSPD by incorporating a new chance-constrained programming method. A generic genetic algorithm (GA) approach for STT-VRPSPD is also developed and used as a reference for performance comparison. The Dethloff data will be used to evaluate the performance characteristics of both SS and GA approaches. The computational results suggest that the SS solutions are superior to the GA solutions.


Annals of Operations Research | 2006

Seizure warning algorithm based on optimization and nonlinear dynamics

Wanpracha Art Chaovalitwongse; Oleg A. Prokopyev; Panos M. Pardalos

Epilepsy is among the most common brain disorders. Approximately 25–30% of epilepsy patients remain unresponsive to anti-epileptic drug treatment, which is the standard therapy for epilepsy. In this study, we apply optimization-based data mining techniques to classify the brains normal and epilepsy activity using intracranial electroencephalogram (EEG), which is a tool for evaluating the physiological state of the brain. A statistical cross validation and support vector machines were implemented to classify the brains normal and abnormal activities. The results of this study indicate that it may be possible to design and develop efficient seizure warning algorithms for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes.


Optimization Methods & Software | 2003

Scatter search for the stochastic travel-time vehicle routing problem with simultaneous pick-ups and deliveries

Leonidas D. Iasemidis; Panos M. Pardalos; Deng-Shan Shiau; Wanpracha Art Chaovalitwongse; K. Narayanan; Shiv Kumar; Paul R. Carney; J. Chris Sackellares

The phenomenon of epilepsy, one of the most common neurological disorders, constitutes a unique opportunity to study the dynamics of spatiotemporal state transitions in real, complex, nonlinear dynamical systems. We previously demonstrated that measures of chaos and angular frequency obtained from electroencephalographic (EEG) signals generated by critical sites in the cerebral cortex converge progressively (dynamical entrainment) from the asymptomatic interictal state to the ictal state (seizure) [L.D. Iasemidis, P. Pardalos, J.C. Sackellares and D.-S. Shiau (2001). Quadratic binary programming and dynamical system approach to determine the predictability of epileptic seizures. J. Combinatorial Optimization, 5, 9–26; L.D. Iasemidis, D.-S. Shiau, P.M. Pardalos and J.C. Sackellares (2002). Phase entrainment and predictability of epileptic seizures. In: P.M. Pardalos and J. Principe (Eds.), Biocomputing, pp. 59–84. Kluwer Academic Publishers]. This observation suggests the possibility of developing algorithms to predict seizures. One of the central points of those investigations was the application of optimization theory, specifically quadratic zero-one programming, for the selection of the cortical sites that exhibit preictal dynamical entrainment. In this study we present results from the application of this methodology to the prediction of epileptic seizures. Analysis of continuous, long-term (18–140 h), multielectrode EEG recordings from 5 patients resulted in the prediction of 88% of the impending 50 seizures, on average about 83 min prior to seizure onset, with an average false warning rate of one every 5.26 h. These results suggest that this seizure prediction algorithm performs well enough to be used in diagnostic and therapeutic applications in epileptic patients. Similar algorithms may be useful for certain spatiotemporal state transitions in other physical and biological systems.


Molecular Ecology Resources | 2009

Electroencephalogram (EEG) time series classification: Applications in epilepsy

Mary V. Ashley; Isabel C. Caballero; Wanpracha Art Chaovalitwongse; Bhaskar DasGupta; Priya Govindan; Saad I. Sheikh; Tanya Y. Berger-Wolf

A software suite KINALYZER reconstructs full‐sibling groups without parental information using data from codominant marker loci such as microsatellites. KINALYZER utilizes a new algorithm for sibling reconstruction in diploid organisms based on combinatorial optimization. KINALYZER makes use of a Minimum 2‐Allele Set Cover approach based on Mendelian inheritance rules and finds the smallest number of sibling groups that contain all the individuals in the sample. Also available is a ‘Greedy Consensus’ approach that reconstructs sibgroups using subsets of loci and finds the consensus of the partial solutions. Unlike likelihood methods for sibling reconstruction, KINALYZER does not require information about population allele frequencies and it makes no assumptions regarding the mating system of the species. KINALYZER is freely available as a web‐based service.

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Shouyi Wang

University of Texas at Arlington

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Bhaskar DasGupta

University of Illinois at Chicago

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Mary V. Ashley

University of Illinois at Chicago

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Tanya Y. Berger-Wolf

University of Illinois at Chicago

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