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Abstract
Electroencephalogram monitoring devices and online data repositories hold
large amounts of data from individuals participating in research and medical
studies without direct reference to personal identifiers. This paper explores
what types of personal and health information have been detected and classified
within task-free EEG data. Additionally, we investigate key characteristics of
the collected resting-state and sleep data, in order to determine the privacy
risks involved with openly available EEG data. We used Google Scholar, Web of
Science and searched relevant journals to find studies which classified or
detected the presence of various disorders and personal information in resting
state and sleep EEG. Only English full-text peer-reviewed journal articles or
conference papers about classifying the presence of medical disorders between
individuals were included. A quality analysis carried out by 3 reviewers
determined general paper quality based on specified evaluation criteria. In
resting state EEG, various disorders including Autism Spectrum Disorder,
Parkinson's disease, and alcohol use disorder have been classified with high
classification accuracy, often requiring only 5 mins of data or less. Sleep EEG
tends to hold classifiable information about sleep disorders such as sleep
apnea, insomnia, and REM sleep disorder, but usually involve longer recordings
or data from multiple sleep stages. Many classification methods are still
developing but even today, access to a person's EEG can reveal sensitive
personal health information. With an increasing ability of machine learning
methods to re-identify individuals from their EEG data, this review
demonstrates the importance of anonymization, and the development of improved
tools for keeping study participants and medical EEG users' privacy safe.
External Datasets
EEG data from a cross sectional study on psychophysiological insomnia and normal sleep subjects
EEG Signals From Normal and MCI (Mild Cognitive Impairment) Cases
MDD Patients and Healthy Controls EEG Data
UC San Diego Resting State EEG Data from Patients with Parkinson's Disease