Adaptive boost LS-SVM classification approach for time-series signal classification in epileptic seizure diagnosis applications

•Adaptive Boost Support Vector Machine (AB-LS-SVM) is designed to predict epilepsy.•AB-LS-SVM classifier adopts covariance matrix to reduce EEG signal dimensionality.•AB-LS-SVM classifier detects epileptic patterns with high classification accuracy.•AB-LS-SVM classifier utilizes extracted EEG features to identify epilepsy.•AB-LS-SVM classifier has practical implications in healthcare & expert systems.