An Advanced Analysis System for Identifying Alcoholic Brain State Through EEG Signals

Abstract

This paper addresses an advanced analysis system for the identification of alcoholic brain states from electroencephalogram (EEG) data in an automatic way. This study introduces an optimum allocation based sampling (OAS) scheme to discover the most favourable representative data points from every single time-window of each EEG signal considering the minimal variability of the observations. Combining all representative samples of each time-window in a set, some statistical features are extracted from every set of each class. The Mann-Whitney U test is used to assess whether each of the features is significant between the two classes (e.g., alcoholic and control). In order to evaluate the effectiveness of the OAS-based features, four well-known machine learning methods (decision table, support vector machine (SVM), k-nearest neighbor (k-NN) and logistic regression) are considered for identification of alcoholic brain state. The experimental results on the UCI KDD (i.e., UCI knowledge discovery in databases) database demonstrate that the OAS based decision table algorithm yields the highest accuracy of 99.58% with a low false alarm rate 0.40%, which is an improvement of up to 9.58% over the existing algorithms. A proposed analysis system can be used to detect alcoholism and also to determine the level of alcoholism-related changes in EEG signals.