Recurrence Quantification Analysis of EEG Signals for Automated Epileptic Seizure Detection Using Random Forest Classifier
Abstract
Epilepsy affects over 50 million people globally and its diagnosis relies heavily on visual inspection of electroencephalogram (EEG) recordings. This paper proposes an automated three-class EEG seizure detection system based on Recurrence Quantification Analysis (RQA), a nonlinear dynamical analysis technique that characterises the recurrence structure of phase space trajectories without stationarity assumptions. Six RQA features — Recurrence Rate (RR), Determinism (DET), Mean Diagonal Line Length (L_mean), Shannon Entropy (ENT), Laminarity (LAM), and Trapping Time (TT) — are extracted from the recurrence plot of each EEG epoch. A Random Forest classifier trained under 10-fold stratified cross-validation on the Bonn University EEG database achieves an accuracy of 96.67%, sensitivity of 96.67%, specificity of 98.33%, and F1-score of 96.65% for three-class (normal, interictal, ictal) classification. The proposed method outperforms published RQA-SVM and DWT-SVM baselines and requires no prior signal decomposition, making it computationally efficient for bedside monitoring.
Keywords
Recurrence Quantification Analysis, Recurrence Plot, Epileptic Seizure Detection, EEG, Random Forest, Nonlinear Dynamics, Bonn University Database
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IRE Journals:
Reeda Kunhimangalam, Sujith O K "Recurrence Quantification Analysis of EEG Signals for Automated Epileptic Seizure Detection Using Random Forest Classifier" Iconic Research And Engineering Journals Volume 9 Issue 9 2026 Page 1704-1708 https://doi.org/10.64388/IREV9I9-1715295
IEEE:
Reeda Kunhimangalam, Sujith O K
"Recurrence Quantification Analysis of EEG Signals for Automated Epileptic Seizure Detection Using Random Forest Classifier" Iconic Research And Engineering Journals, 9(9) https://doi.org/10.64388/IREV9I9-1715295
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