Abstract
Current epilepsy prediction methods are not effective in characterizing the multi-domain features of complex long-term electroencephalogram (EEG) data, leading to suboptimal prediction performance. Therefore, this paper proposes a novel multi-scale sparse adaptive convolutional network based on multi-head attention mechanism (MS-SACN-MM) model to effectively characterize the multi-domain features. The model first preprocesses the EEG data, constructs multiple convolutional layers to effectively avoid information overload, and uses a multi-layer perceptron and multi-head attention mechanism to focus the network on critical pre-seizure features. Then, it adopts a focal loss training strategy to alleviate class imbalance and enhance the model's robustness. Experimental results show that on the publicly created dataset (CHB-MIT) by MIT and Boston Children's Hospital, the MS-SACN-MM model achieves a maximum accuracy of 0.999 for seizure prediction 10 ~ 15 minutes in advance. This demonstrates good predictive performance and holds significant importance for early intervention and intelligent clinical management of epilepsy patients.