EEG Database of Epileptic Patients

Epilepsy is a neurological disorder characterized by different symptoms, including seizures, stiffness of muscles, uncontrollable movement of the body, and multiple psychological abnormalities. Electroencephalogram (EEG) is extensively used in the diagnosis of epilepsy. The presence of abnormal wave complexes observed in the EEG signal helps in the diagnosis of epilepsy. There are multiple databases containing EEG signals from epileptic patients, which are used in developing support systems for neurologists to augment the diagnosis or prediction of epilepsy. However, few epilepsy databases are specific to the South-Asian region. Of these databases, no continuous recording of EEG signals with multiple wave complexes in unipolar and bipolar EEG signals is provided. This study aims to publish the first South-Asian database containing continuous EEG signals from chronic epileptic patients with multiple wave complexes in unipolar and bipolar formats. Moreover, apart from the wave complexes, the EEG recordings have also been marked for artifacts which may be used to train the system for automatic rejection of the artifact noise from the EEG epileptic signals.