Recurrent boosting for classification of natural and synthetic time-series data

Boosted ensemble classifiers have a demonstrated ability to discover regularities in large, poorly modeled datasets. In this paper we present an application of multi-hypothesis AdaBoost to detect epileptiform activity from electrophysiological recordings. While existing boosting methods do not account automatically for the sequence information that is available when analyzing time-series data, we present a recurrent extension to AdaBoost, and show that it improves classification accuracy in our application domain.