Detection of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder by Using EEG Feature Maps and Deep Learning

Abstract

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a mental disorder that affects the behavior of the persons, and usually onsets in childhood. ADHD generally causes impulsivity, hyperactivity, and inattention which impairs day-to-day life even in the adulthood if left undiagnosed and untreated. Although various guidelines for diagnosis of ADHD exist, a universally accepted objective diagnostic procedure is not established. Since current diagnosis of ADHD heavily relies on the expertise of healthcare providers, an EEG Topographic Feature Map (EEG-FM) based method is proposed in this study which aims to objectively diagnose ADHD. 6 different features extracted from EEG recordings acquired from 33 participants, 15 ADHD patients and 18 control subjects, converted into EEG-FM images and fed into a convolutional neural network (CNN) based classifier. Results indicate that the proposed method can accurately classify ADHD patients with up to 99% accuracy, precision, and recall. © 2023 European Signal Processing Conference, EUSIPCO. All rights reserved.