Epilepsy patients experience challenges in daily life due to precautions they have to take in order to cope with this condition. When a seizure occurs, it might cause injuries or endanger the life of the patients or others, especially when they are using heavy machinery, e.g., deriving cars. Studies of epilepsy often rely on electroencephalogram (EEG) signals in order to analyze the behavior of the brain during seizures. Locating the seizure period in EEG recordings manually is difficult and time consuming; one often needs to skim through tens or even hundreds of hours of EEG recordings. Therefore, automatic detection of such an activity is of great importance. Another potential usage of EEG signal analysis is in the prediction of epileptic activities before they occur, as this will enable the patients (and caregivers) to take appropriate precautions. In this paper, we first present an overview of seizure detection and prediction problem and provide insights on the challenges in this area. Second, we cover some of the state-of-the-art seizure detection and prediction algorithms and provide comparison between these algorithms. Finally, we conclude with future research directions and open problems in this topic.

The trade-off between more user bandwidth and quality of service requirements introduces unprecedented challenges to the next generation smart optical networks. In this regard, the use of optical performance monitoring (OPM) and modulation format identification (MFI) techniques becomes a common need to enable the development of next-generation autonomous optical networks, with ultra-low latency and selfadaptability. Recently, machine learning (ML)-based techniques have emerged as a vital solution to many challenging aspects of OPM and MFI in terms of reliability, quality, and implementation efficiency. This paper surveys ML-based OPM and MFI techniques proposed in the literature. First, we address the key advantages of employing ML algorithms in optical networks. Then, we review the main optical impairments and modulation formats being monitored and classified, respectively, using ML algorithms. Additionally, we discuss the current status of optical networks in terms of MFI and OPM. This includes standards, monitoring parameters, and the available commercial products with their limitations. Second, we provide a comprehensive review of the available ML-based techniques for MFI, OPM, and joint MFI/OPM, describing their performance, advantages, and limitations. Third, we give an overview of the exiting ML-based OPM and MFI techniques for the emerging optical networks such as the new fiber-based networks that use future space division multiplexing techniques (e.g. few-mode fiber), the hybrid radioover-fiber networks, and the free space optical networks. Finally, we discuss the open issues, potential future research directions, and recommendations for the potential implementation of MLbased OPM and MFI techniques. Some lessons learned are presented after each section throughout the paper to help the reader identifying the gaps, weaknesses, and strengths in this field.

In this paper, we propose a saliency-based attribute, SalSi, to detect salt dome bodies within seismic volumes. SalSi is based on the saliency theory and modeling of the human vision system (HVS). In this work, we aim to highlight the parts of the seismic volume that receive highest attention from the human interpreter, and based on the salient features of a seismic image, we detect the salt domes. Experimental results show the effectiveness of SalSi on the real seismic dataset acquired from the North Sea, F3 block. Subjectively, we have used the ground truth and the output of different salt dome delineation algorithms to validate the results of SalSi. For the objective evaluation of results, we have used the receiver operating characteristics (ROC) curves and area under the curves (AUC) to demonstrate SalSi is a promising and an effective attribute for seismic interpretation.

In this paper, we study the separability of the commonly used features to monitor the performance of optical signal in coherent optical systems. Specifically, our study focuses on the histogram-based features; the asynchronous amplitude histogram (AAH) and the two-dimensional extension of AAH, which we call IQ histogram (IQH). We investigate the conditions under which the optical channel impairments can be monitored. This study utilizes a dimensionality reduction technique, known as the t-distribution stochastic neighbor embedding (t-SNE). Using t-SNE, we show that under certain conditions the histogrambased features cannot be used to distinguish between the high and low impairment effects, rendering these features useless for certain cases, regardless of the type or complexity of the implemented impairments' estimator/classifier. Extensive simulations results have been conducted to investigate single and multiple impairments conditions and the performance of histogram-based features in each case. The results show that both AAH and IQH can be used for monitoring all types of single Impairment except phase noise in case of AAH. Moreover, under multiple impairments conditions, polarization mode dispersion values can be monitored to some extent, while it is difficult to monitor optical signal-to-noise ratio and chromatic dispersion values especially in the case of concurrent presence of more than two impairments. The results of these investigations are validated by providing a quantitative measure that ties their usefulness to the actual monitoring performance through the estimation of channel impairments under different conditions using linear support vector machine (SVM) regression. It has been found that there is a match to a great extent between the separability investigation using t-SNE and estimation results obtained using SVM.

In this paper, we propose a workflow based on SalSi for the detection and delineation of geological structures such as salt domes. SalSi is a seismic attribute designed based on the modeling of human visual system that detects the salient features and captures the spatial correlation within seismic volumes for delineating seismic structures. Using SalSi, we can not only highlight the neighboring regions of salt domes to assist a seismic interpreter but also delineate such structures using a region growing method and post-processing. The proposed delineation workflow detects the salt-dome boundary with very good precision and accuracy. Experimental results show the effectiveness of the proposed workflow on a real seismic dataset acquired from the North Sea, F3 block. For the subjective evaluation of the results of different salt-dome delineation algorithms, we have used a reference salt-dome boundary interpreted by a geophysicist. For the objective evaluation of results, we have used five different metrics based on pixels, shape, and curvedness to establish the effectiveness of the proposed workflow. The proposed workflow is not only fast but also yields better results as compared to other salt-dome delineation algorithms and shows a promising potential in seismic interpretation.