Statistics Seminar Series 2009-10 Title: Statistical machine learning and its application to neonatal seizure detection Speaker: Dr. Andrey Temko, Neonatal Brain Research Group, Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, University College Cork, Venue and time: Western Gateway (IT) Building, G16 Mon 19th October 4-5pm Abstract: Recent work on statistical machine learning has shown the advantages of discriminative classifiers such as Support Vector Machines (SVM) in a range of applications, including seizure detection. In this talk, basics of an SVM classifier will be given followed by description of the SVM-based neonatal seizure detector developed at UCC. An alternative developed at UCC which is based on Gaussian mixture model classifier will be also described and the comparison of performance between systems based on discriminative SVM and generative GMM classifiers will be proposed.