ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Neurosci.

Sec. Neural Technology

Volume 19 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fnins.2025.1607248

This article is part of the Research TopicNeuroengineering for health and disease: a multi-scale approachView all 6 articles

DSCnet: Detection of Drug and Alcohol Addiction Mechanisms Based on Multi-Angle Feature Learning from the Hybrid Representation of EEG

Provisionally accepted
Jing  WuJing Wu1Nan  ZhangNan Zhang1Qilei  YeQilei Ye2Xiaorui  ZhengXiaorui Zheng3Minmin  ShaoMinmin Shao4Xian  ChenXian Chen5*Hui  HuangHui Huang1*
  • 1Wenzhou University, Wenzhou, China
  • 2Wenzhou Data Bureau, Wenzhou, China
  • 3Wenzhou City Huanglong Compulsory Isolation Drug Rehabilitation Center, Wenzhou, China
  • 4Department of Otolaryngology, Wenzhou Central Hospital, Wenzhou, China
  • 5Wenzhou Polytechnic, Wenzhou, China

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Drug and alcohol addiction impair neurotransmitter systems, leading to severe physiological, psychological, and social issues. Electroencephalography (EEG) is commonly used to analyze addiction mechanisms, but traditional feature extraction methods such as time-frequency analysis, PCA, and ICA fail to capture complex relationships between variables. This paper proposes DSCnet, a novel neural network model for addiction detection. DSCnet combines embedding layers, skip connections, depthwise separable convolution, and our self-designed Directional Adaptive Feature Modulation (DAFM) module. DAFM is a key innovation that adaptively adjusts feature directionality, extracting global features from EEG signals while preserving spatiotemporal information. This enables the model to capture neural activity patterns related to addiction mechanisms. DSCnet uses a multi-angle feature extraction strategy, emphasizing information from various perspectives. On the drug addiction dataset, DSCnet achieved 85.11% accuracy, 85.13% precision, 85.12% recall, and 85.12% F1-score. On the UCI alcohol addiction dataset, it achieved 84.56% accuracy, 84.73% precision, 84.56% recall, and 84.63% F1-score. These results outperform existing models and demonstrate a balanced performance across both datasets, highlighting DSCnet's potential in addiction detection.

Keywords: electroencephalograms, Alcoholism, drug addiction, computer-aided diagnosis, Convolutional Neural Networks, Classification

Received: 09 Apr 2025; Accepted: 23 May 2025.

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* Correspondence:
Xian Chen, Wenzhou Polytechnic, Wenzhou, China
Hui Huang, Wenzhou University, Wenzhou, China

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