Study on Depression Classification Based on Electroencephalography Data Collected by Wearable Devices

Hanshu Cai, Yanhao Zhang, Xiaocong Sha, Bin Hu*

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Depression has become a disease, which may threaten millions of families’ well-being. The current method of screening depression is subjective, labor-consuming and costly. Study on Electroencephalogram (EEG) has become a new direction to explore an objective, low-cost and accurate method to detect depression. In this paper, three-electrode EEG data of 158 subjects (90 depressed and 68 normal control) in resting state, and under audio stimulation (positive and negative) were collected and processed. After feature selection using Sequential Floating Forward Selection (SFFS), four popular classification methods were applied and classification accuracies were verified using 10-fold cross validation. Results have shown the accuracy of classification will be improved when male and female are classified separately. The highest accuracy of male and female classification are 91.98%, 79.76%, respectively, compare to 77.43% when the classification is processed as gender-free. The effective depressive features of male and female are also different, which may be caused by the differences of brain structure. This research suggests a possible pervasive method of depression classification for future clinical application.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationBrain Informatics - International Conference, BI 2017, Proceedings
EditorsYi Zeng, Bo Xu, Maryann Martone, Yong He, Hanchuan Peng, Qingming Luo, Jeanette Hellgren Kotaleski
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages244-253
Number of pages10
ISBN (Print)9783319707716
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2017
Externally publishedYes
EventInternational Conference on Brain Informatics, BI 2017 - Beijing, China
Duration: 16 Nov 201718 Nov 2017

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume10654 LNAI
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

ConferenceInternational Conference on Brain Informatics, BI 2017
Country/TerritoryChina
CityBeijing
Period16/11/1718/11/17

Keywords

  • Depression
  • EEG
  • Health care
  • Pervasive

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