Publication Name	World Journal of Psychiatry
Manuscript ID	123156
DOI	10.5498/wjp.123156
Country	Türkiye

Category	Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence
Manuscript Type	Retrospective Study
Article Title	FusedNeXt-based anxiety detection from electroencephalography topographic maps: A comparative analysis of alpha, beta, and theta bands
Manuscript Source	Invited Manuscript
All Author List	Suheda Kaya, Gulay Tasci, İlknur Tuncer, Burak Tasci, Nursena Baygın, Irem Tasci, Mehmet Baygin, Sengul Dogan and Turker Tuncer
Funding Agency and Grant Number
Corresponding Author	Burak Tasci, Vocational School of Technical Sciences, Firat University, Cahit Arf Street, Elazig 23119, Türkiye. btasci@firat.edu.tr
Key Words	Anxiety detection; Electroencephalography; FusedNeXt; Topographic map; Deep learning; Lightweight architecture; Hyper-connection; Alpha, beta and theta bands; Decision support system
Core Tip	This study presents a lightweight FusedNeXt-based framework for anxiety detection using electroencephalography (EEG) topographic map images. Instead of relying on handcrafted numerical features, alpha, beta, and theta frequency bands were converted into spatial scalp maps and evaluated under the same architecture, data split, and test protocol. The theta band achieved the best overall performance, while the beta band reduced false anxiety predictions in control samples. The proposed model provides competitive accuracy with low computational cost, supporting its potential use in fast EEG-based decision-support systems.
Citation	Kaya S, Tasci G, Tuncer İ, Tasci B, Baygın N, Tasci I, Baygin M, Dogan S, Tuncer T. FusedNeXt-based anxiety detection from electroencephalography topographic maps: A comparative analysis of alpha, beta, and theta bands. World J Psychiatry 2026; In press DOI: https://doi.org/10.5498/wjp.123156
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Received	2026-05-11 06:15
Peer-Review Started	2026-05-11 06:17
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Final Decision by Editorial Office Director	2026-09-04 09:15
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