Feature extraction of EEG signal using wavelet transform for autism classification

Abstract

Feature extraction is a process to extract information from the electroencephalogram (EEG) signal to represent the large dataset before performing classification. This paper is intended to study the use of discrete wavelet transform (DWT) in extracting feature from EEG signal obtained by sensory response from autism children. In this study, DWT is used to decompose a filtered EEG signal into its frequency components and the statistical feature of the DWT coefficient are computed in time domain. The features are used to train a multilayer perceptron (MLP) neural network to classify the signals into three classes of autism severity (mild, moderate and severe). The training results in classification accuracy achieved up to 92.3% with MSE of 0.0362. Testing on the trained neural network shows that all samples used for testing is being classified correctlyARPN Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences