Spike-and-wave epileptiform discharge pattern detection based on Kendall’s Tau-b Coefficient

"Epilepsy is a main public health issue. An appropriate epileptiform discharges pattern detection of this neurological disease, is a typical problem in biomedical engineering. In this paper, a new method is proposed for spike-and-wave discharge pattern detection based on Kendall’s Tau Coefficient. The proposed approach is demonstrated on a real dataset containing spike-and-wave discharge signals, where our performance is evaluated in terms of high Specificity, rule in (SpPIn) with 94% for patient-specific spike-and-wave discharge detection and 83% for a general spike-and-wave discharge detection."