Learning Multi-Class Neural-Network Models from Electroencephalograms

04/13/2005

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by   Vitaly Schetinin, et al.

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We describe a new algorithm for learning multi-class neural-network models from large-scale clinical electroencephalograms (EEGs). This algorithm trains hidden neurons separately to classify all the pairs of classes. To find best pairwise classifiers, our algorithm searches for input variables which are relevant to the classification problem. Despite patient variability and heavily overlapping classes, a 16-class model learnt from EEGs of 65 sleeping newborns correctly classified 80.8 Additionally, the neural-network model provides a probabilistic interpretation of decisions.