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This is great for partial seizures but not really applicable for anyone with generalized epilepsy (where the origin of abnormal electrical activity in the brain
by whyleyc 12y ago
This is great for partial seizures but not really applicable for anyone with generalized epilepsy (where the origin of abnormal electrical activity in the brain cannot be pinpointed).
Tech is moving along nicely for the latter type of epilepsy though - for anyone interested, the state of the art is the "Embrace wristband" which uses electrical activity across the skin to alert before a seizure occurs. It can pair with mobile devices to send SMS alerts to friends and family - very cool:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn26599-smartwatch-detects-skins-electricity-to-predict-seizures.html#.VMktCoqQGnM http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn26599-smartwatch-detec...
- compbio 12y agoSee also this Kaggle competition where the task was to predict impending seizures: https://www.kaggle.com/c/seizure-prediction https://www.kaggle.com/c/seizure-prediction The top contestants achieved an accuracy of around 0.82 AUC, which blew the top of previous efforts. http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/12/10/369654830/a-crowd-of-scientists-finds-a-better-way-to-predict-epileptic-seizures http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/12/10/369654830/a-crowd... This blogpost reviews the two Kaggle competitions and interviews the top contestants on their methods: http://blog.kaggle.com/2015/01/26/american-epilepsy-society-seizure-prediction-challenge/ http://blog.kaggle.com/2015/01/26/american-epilepsy-society-... Very rewarding projects to hack on.