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A NEW METHOD FOR DIAGNOSING EPILEPSY DISEASE FROM STRUCTURAL BRAIN MR IMAGES

Cilt: 28 Sayı: 4 3 Aralık 2025
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A NEW METHOD FOR DIAGNOSING EPILEPSY DISEASE FROM STRUCTURAL BRAIN MR IMAGES

Abstract

Epilepsy is a chronic neurological disorder that requires accurate clinical evaluation for diagnosis. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) plays an essential role in identifying structural brain changes associated with epilepsy. In this study, we introduce a new approach for diagnosing epilepsy using structural brain MRI data. First, we constructed a novel dataset that includes 196 participants, comprising 75 patients with epilepsy and 121 healthy controls. Based on this dataset, we developed a method to identify discriminative features by analyzing volumetric variations across brain regions. To refine the feature set, statistical selection methods were applied, specifically the Mann-Whitney U test and the Kolmogorov-Smirnov Z test. Through this process, 37 of the original 50 features were retained as the most relevant for classification. In the final stage, we evaluated these features using several machine learning classifiers, including k-nearest neighbors, support vector machines, multilayer perceptron, and random forest. The experimental results showed that the support vector machine achieved the best performance, with a precision of 95.45%, a recall of 84%, an F1-score of 89.36%, and an accuracy of 92.34%. Compared with existing state-of-the-art methods, the proposed approach demonstrates highly competitive performance, highlighting its potential as an effective diagnostic tool for epilepsy detection.

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Araştırma Makalesi

Yayımlanma Tarihi

3 Aralık 2025

Gönderilme Tarihi

12 Eylül 2025

Kabul Tarihi

21 Ekim 2025

Yayımlandığı Sayı

Yıl 2025 Cilt: 28 Sayı: 4

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APA
Arslan, H., Bölükbaş, O., & Uğuz, H. (2025). A NEW METHOD FOR DIAGNOSING EPILEPSY DISEASE FROM STRUCTURAL BRAIN MR IMAGES. Kahramanmaraş Sütçü İmam Üniversitesi Mühendislik Bilimleri Dergisi, 28(4), 2124-2138. https://doi.org/10.17780/ksujes.1782641