Reporting existing datasets for automatic epilepsy diagnosis and seizure detection

Abstract: More than 50 million individuals are affected by epilepsy, a chronic neurological disorder characterized by unprovoked, recurring seizures and psychological symptoms. Researchers are working to automatically detect or predict epileptic episodes through Electroencephalography (EEG) signal analysis, and machine, and deep learning methods. Good quality, open-source, and free EEG data acts as a catalyst in this ongoing battle to manage this disease. This article presents 40+ publicly available EEG datasets for adult and pediatric human populations from 2001-2023. A comparative analysis and discussion on open and private EEG datasets have been done based on objective parameters in this domain. Bonn and CHB-MIT remain the benchmark datasets used for the automatic detection of epileptic and seizure EEG signals. Meta-data has also been released for large EEG data like CHB-MIT. This article will be updated every year to report the progress and changing trends in the development of EEG datasets in this field.