International Journal of Engineering and Technology

Epileptic attack persons are detected largely on the analysis of Electroencephalogram (EEG) signals. The EEG signals recordings generate very bulk data which require a skilled and careful analysis. This method can be automated based on Elman Neural Network by using a time frequency domain characteristics of EEG signal called Approximate Entropy (ApEn). This method consists of EEG collection of data, extraction and classification. EEG data from normal persons and epileptic affected persons was collected, digitized and then fed into the Elman neural network. This proposed system proposes a neural-network-based automated epileptic EEG detection system that uses approximate entropy (ApEn) as the input feature. Approximate Entropy (ApEn) [1] is a statistical parameter that measures the predictability of the current amplitude values of a physiological signal based on its previous amplitude values. It is known that the value of the Approximate Entropy drops sharply during an epileptic attack[2]and this fact is used in the proposed system. Type of a neural network namely, Elman neural network is considered in this paper. The experimental results portray that this proposed approach efficiently detects the presence of epileptic seizures[3] in EEG signals and showed a reasonable accuracy.