Epileptic Seizure Prediction Using Patient-Adaptive Transformer Networks
This study addresses the challenges of high inter-patient variability and complex temporal dynamics in electroencephalogram (EEG) signals for seizure prediction by proposing an adaptive Transformer framework tailored to individual patients. The approach employs a two-stage training strategy: first, a general-purpose EEG representation is learned via self-supervised pretraining; subsequently, patient-specific fine-tuning is performed by integrating noise-aware preprocessing, multi-channel signal tokenization, and autoregressive modeling. Evaluated on the TUH EEG dataset, the method achieves over 90% accuracy in predicting seizures within a 30-second horizon and attains an F1 score above 0.80, significantly outperforming existing approaches and demonstrating enhanced performance in personalized seizure forecasting.