Papers › Avoiding Post-Processing with Event-Based Detection in Biomedical Signals
Avoiding Post-Processing with Event-Based Detection in Biomedical Signals
Nick Seeuws, Maarten De Vos, Alexander Bertrand
Objective: Finding events of interest is a common task in biomedical signal processing. The detection of epileptic seizures and signal artefacts are two key examples. Epoch-based classification is the typical machine learning framework to detect such signal events because of the straightforward application of classical machine learning techniques. Usually, post-processing is required to achieve good performance and enforce temporal dependencies. Designing the right post-processing scheme to convert these classification outputs into events is a tedious, and labor-intensive element of this framework. Methods: We propose an event-based modeling framework that directly works with events as learning targets, stepping away from ad-hoc post-processing schemes to turn model outputs into events. We illustrate the practical power of this framework on simulated data and real-world data, comparing it to epoch-based modeling approaches. Results: We show that event-based modeling (without post-processing) performs on par with or better than epoch-based modeling with extensive post-processing. Conclusion: These results show the power of treating events as direct learning targets, instead of using ad-hoc post-processing to obtain them, severely reducing design effort. Significance: The event-based modeling framework can easily be applied to other event detection problems in signal processing, removing the need for intensive task-specific post-processing.
Code
Repository list and official/mentioned flags are the archive's, frozen 2025-07-28. Reachability, where shown, is from one Syntology probe window (2026-09-16 to 2026-09-18); repositories not probed show nothing. GitHub stars are not tracked.
Code Syntology ran Syntology
Not run by Syntology. Nothing on this page verifies that the listed code works.
Tasks
Results from the paper archive 2025-07-28
No leaderboard rows for this paper in the archive.
Report a problem or propose a change · a person checks every report against the paper or source before anything changes; decisions are listed on /corrections