Power and Phase Fusion Spectrogram with Three-Dimensional Convolution and Vision Transformer for Seizure Detection.

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1. School of Integrated Circuits, Shandong University, Jinan 250101, China
2. Tandon School of Engineering, New York University, New York, NY 10012, USA
3. Shenzhen Research Institute of Shandong University, Shenzhen 518000, China
4. Key Laboratory of Social Computing and Cognitive Intelligence, Dalian University of Technology, Ministry of Education, Dalian 116024, China

Abstract

Background/Objectives: Reliable detection of epileptic seizures using electroencephalography (EEG) is crucial for clinical diagnosis and for alleviating clinicians’ workload. However, existing studies still make insufficient use of phase information, and the synergy between local time–frequency pattern extraction and global dependency modeling remains limited. Methods: We propose a seizure detection framework based on the continuous wavelet transform (CWT), a three-dimensional convolutional neural network (3D-CNN), and a vision transformer (ViT). First, multichannel EEG segments are preprocessed, after which CWT is used to generate power spectrograms and phase spectrograms. These representations are then fused along the depth dimension into a unified power-phase volume and fed into a hybrid network composed of a 3D-CNN feature extractor and a single-layer ViT encoder to jointly learn local time–frequency–channel coupling patterns and higher-level global dependencies. Finally, seizure detection is completed by combining moving-average filtering, thresholding, and collar correction. Results: On the public CHB-MIT dataset and the clinical SH-SDU dataset, the proposed method achieved average segment-level sensitivities of 98.68% and 92.05%, specificities of 98.33% and 97.53%, accuracies of 98.49% and 96.37%, and AUC values of 97.26% and 92.89%, respectively. In event-level evaluation, the average sensitivities were 99.13% and 96.08%, with false detection rates of 0.88/h and 0.69/h, respectively. Further multi-stage ablation experiments together with t-SNE and Grad-CAM visualizations provided qualitative and experimental support for the design rationale of the joint power-phase input and the hybrid 3D-CNN-ViT architecture. Conclusions: The proposed framework effectively exploits the complementary discriminative value of power and phase information in epileptic EEG and demonstrates strong detection performance under patient-specific evaluation on both public and clinically collected datasets.

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Jiang, Y., Wang, Z., Zhao, Y., Zhou, W., & Liu, G. (2026). Power and Phase Fusion Spectrogram with Three-Dimensional Convolution and Vision Transformer for Seizure Detection. Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland), 16(13), 2012. https://doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics16132012

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