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This study presents a patient-independent EEG-based seizure detection framework that achieved zero false alarms in 24 h with 95% sensitivity in a retrospective evaluation on a CHB\u2013MIT pediatric cohort (n = 6 seizure-positive patients). The pipeline extracts 27 time-, frequency-, and nonlinear-domain features from 5 s windows and trains five ensemble classifiers (XGBoost, CatBoost, LightGBM, Extra Trees, Random Forest) using strict leave-one-subject-out cross-validation. All models achieved segment-level AUC \u2265 0.99. Under zero-false-alarm constraints, XGBoost attained perfect specificity with 0.922 sensitivity. SHAP and LIME analyses suggested candidate EEG biomarkers that appear consistent with known ictal signatures, including temporo-parietal theta-band power, amplitude variability (IQR, RMS), and Hjorth activity. External validation on the Siena Scalp EEG Database (12 adult patients, 37 seizures) demonstrated cross-dataset generalization with 95% event-level sensitivity (Extra Trees) and AUC of 0.86 (Random Forest). Temporal lobe channels dominated feature importance in both datasets, confirming consistent biomarker identification across pediatric and adult populations. 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