Improving the extraction of temporal motion strength signals from video recordings of neonatal seizures

The paper presents a procedure developed to extract quantitative information from video recordings of neonatal seizures in the form of temporal motion strength signals. These signals are obtained by applying nonlinear filtering, segmentation, and morphological filtering on the differences between adjacent frames. The experiments indicate that temporal motion strength signals constitute an effective representation of videotaped clinical events and can be used for seizure recognition and characterization.