arXiv Machine Learning

Expert-level detection of low-voltage intervals in EEG as a robust biomarker of neonatal encephalopathy

The study introduces low‑voltage intervals (LVIs) as an amplitude‑ and duration‑based marker of neonatal EEG discontinuity and develops a ConvNeXt AI model that detects LVIs with expert‑level accuracy (AUC = 0.996, MCC = 0.926). In a cohort of 444 neonates, LVI percentage strongly correlates with EEG background grades, moderately with hypoxic‑ischaemic encephalopathy severity, and predicts seizures (AUC = 0.872). The results demonstrate that automated LVI quantification can serve as a robust biomarker for neonatal encephalopathy and seizure risk.

arXiv AI
Jun 19

Evaluation of EEG Foundation Models for Event-Based Burst-Suppression Detection in ICU

arXiv:2606. 20074v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Burst suppression (BS) is a clinically relevant electroencephalographic (EEG) pattern used to monitor sedation depth and brain activity in critically ill patients, particularly during induced coma in Intensive Care Units (ICUs).

By Elisa Vasta, Thorir Mar Ingolfsson, Andrea Cossettini, Luca Benini, Tilman Beck, Emanuela Keller, Una Pale
arXiv AI
Jul 28

Neonatal Hypoxic-ischaemic Encephalopathy Classification from the EEG and HRV Signals Using a Conformer based Masked Autoencoder

arXiv:2607. 23554v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In this paper, we propose the MAEConformer, a novel self-supervised learning framework that combines the Conformer architecture with the Masked Autoencoder (MAE) paradigm for large-scale representation learning from unlabelled electroencephalography (EEG) and heart rate variability (HRV) signals.

By Shuwen Yu, William P Marnane, Geraldine B. Boylan, Gordon Lightbody
arXiv AI
Oct 1

NeuroAtlas: Benchmarking Foundation Models for Clinical EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces

NeuroAtlas is the largest EEG benchmark to date, comprising 42 datasets and 260,000 hours of clinical EEG data across epilepsy, sleep medicine, brain age estimation, and brain‑computer interfaces. The study evaluates foundation models (FMs) for EEG against supervised baselines and generic time‑series FMs, finding that EEG‑specific FMs do not consistently outperform generic ones. It also demonstrates that standard machine‑learning metrics are inadequate for clinical relevance, advocating for task‑specific measures such as event‑level decision quality, hypnogram features, and brain‑age gap.

By Konstantinos Kontras, Trui Osselaer, Stylianos G. Mouslech, Angeliki-Ilektra Karaiskou, Guido Gagliardi, Thomas Strypsteen, Mohammad Hossein Badiei, Anku Rani, Maarten Vanmarcke, Miguel Bhagubai, Chanakya Ekbote, Jaedong Hwang, Christos Chatzichristos, Paul Pu Liang, Maarten De Vos
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 7

A Granularity-Aware EEG Feature Framework for Psychopathology Dimension Prediction

arXiv:2607. 02670v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Electroencephalography (EEG) offers a noninvasive approach for examining neurophysiological correlates of dimensional psychopathology, yet systematic evidence across EEG paradigms and feature granularities remains limited.

By Haofan Cheng, Jingjing Hu, Jingrong Pei, Shuaiqi Fu, Meilun Shen, Shuai Fang, Meng Wang, Dan Guo, Jie Zhang
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 2

Lightweight Adaptation of EEG Foundation Models for Stroke Motor Imagery Decoding: Domain Shift and Subject-Level Robustness

The study investigates whether Low‑Rank Adaptation (LoRA) can adapt three pretrained EEG foundation models—LaBraM‑base, REVE‑base, and REVE‑large—for binary left‑ vs. right‑hand motor imagery decoding in stroke patients. Using subject‑wise five‑fold cross‑validation on the PhysioNet EEG Motor Movement/Imagery Dataset and a binary subset of the UET175 stroke dataset, LoRA significantly improved accuracy for LaBraM‑base (0.822) and REVE‑base (0.957) on the healthy cohort, but only REVE‑base LoRA achieved high performance (0.847±0.194) on stroke data, with a best mean accuracy of 0.952 in leave‑one‑subject‑out evaluation. The results demonstrate that healthy‑benchmark performance does not guarantee transfer to stroke EEG, highlighting the need for target‑domain adaptation and subject‑level assessment in rehabilitation BCIs.

By Anh T. Nguyen, Zihua Sun, Michelle J. Johnson