Federated Few-Shot Learning for Epileptic Seizure Detection Under Privacy Constraints

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2512.13717v1
• Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2025 16:01:35 GMT
• Title: Federated Few-Shot Learning for Epileptic Seizure Detection Under Privacy Constraints
• Authors: Ekaterina Sysoykova, Bernhard Anzengruber-Tanase, Michael Haslgrubler, Philipp Seidl, Alois Ferscha,
• Abstract summary: We propose a two-stage federated few-shot learning framework for personalized EEG-based seizure detection.<n>In Stage 1, a pretrained biosignal transformer (BIOT) is fine-tuned across non-IID simulated hospital sites using federated learning.<n>In Stage 2, federated few-shot personalization adapts the classifier to each patient using only five labeled EEG segments.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Many deep learning approaches have been developed for EEG-based seizure detection; however, most rely on access to large centralized annotated datasets. In clinical practice, EEG data are often scarce, patient-specific distributed across institutions, and governed by strict privacy regulations that prohibit data pooling. As a result, creating usable AI-based seizure detection models remains challenging in real-world medical settings. To address these constraints, we propose a two-stage federated few-shot learning (FFSL) framework for personalized EEG-based seizure detection. The method is trained and evaluated on the TUH Event Corpus, which includes six EEG event classes. In Stage 1, a pretrained biosignal transformer (BIOT) is fine-tuned across non-IID simulated hospital sites using federated learning, enabling shared representation learning without centralizing EEG recordings. In Stage 2, federated few-shot personalization adapts the classifier to each patient using only five labeled EEG segments, retaining seizure-specific information while still benefiting from cross-site knowledge. Federated fine-tuning achieved a balanced accuracy of 0.43 (centralized: 0.52), Cohen's kappa of 0.42 (0.49), and weighted F1 of 0.69 (0.74). In the FFSL stage, client-specific models reached an average balanced accuracy of 0.77, Cohen's kappa of 0.62, and weighted F1 of 0.73 across four sites with heterogeneous event distributions. These results suggest that FFSL can support effective patient-adaptive seizure detection under realistic data-availability and privacy constraints.

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