Niezawodna diagnostyka padaczki u noworodków przy użyciu uczenia się sieci graf-czasowych i zrównoważonego treningu w czasie testowania

PubMed➕ 30.10.2026IEEE Trans Biomed Eng

Robust Epilepsy Diagnosis in Neonates Via Spatio-Temporal Graph Learning and Balanced Test-Time Training

W skrócie

Naukowcy opracowali nową metodę komputerową do rozpoznawania padaczki u noworodków, analizując zapisy aktywności mózgu (EEG). System wykorzystuje sztuczną inteligencję, która uczy się rozpoznawać cechy charakterystyczne dla padaczki, nawet gdy dziecko nie ma aktualnie napadów. Metoda została przetestowana na grupie 140 noworodków i wykazała wysoką skuteczność - poprawnie rozpoznawała chore dzieci w 88% przypadków, co jest znaczną poprawą w stosunku do wcześniejszych systemów.

Oryginalny abstract (angielski)

Timely diagnosis of neonatal epilepsy is critical for mitigating long-term neurodevelopmental deficits. However, while neonates exhibiting extensive seizure burden are readily identified, accurately diagnosing epileptic infants with sparse or no overt seizure onset during monitoring remains a formidable challenge using electroencephalogram (EEG) signals alone. Current automated systems predominantly target ictal-specific seizure detection, limiting their clinical utility for risk stratification during seizure-free intervals (interictal), particularly given the pronounced EEG variability across neonates. This work presents a cross-subject deep learning framework that robustly distinguishes epileptic from "healthy" neonates by integrating dynamic graph topology with self-supervised adaptation. Our architecture models multichannel EEG as spatio-temporal graphs to capture functional connectivity, while a balanced test-time training mechanism dynamically adapts the model to unseen patients via masked signal reconstruction. This effectively mitigates the domain shifts caused by inter-subject variability without requiring patient-specific labels. Validated on a clinically curated cohort of 140 neonates (70 healthy, 70 epileptic), our approach achieves a segment-level accuracy of 83$\%$ and an area under the curve of 0.90. For the primary subject-level endpoint, accuracy increases from 0.79 without adaptation to 0.88 with balanced TTT, using aggregation thresholds selected on inner validation subjects and fixed before evaluation on each held-out fold. The cohort includes anoxic-ischemic encephalopathy, benign neonatal convulsions, and cerebrovascular accident. Analyses restricted to non-ictal windows also support discrimination between the two groups, although all neonates in the epilepsy group experienced seizures elsewhere in their recordings.

Metadane publikacji

Journal
IEEE Trans Biomed Eng
Data publikacji
29.10.2026
PMID
42955774
DOI
10.1109/TBME.2026.3748561
Autorzy
Guan S, Jeannes RLB, Yochum M, Poree F, Shu H, Chen X, Song L, Beuchee A, Gomes C, Kachenoura A
Źródło
PubMed