New AI System Predicts Seizures With Near-Perfect Accuracy [Javascript required]:
For the roughly 50 million people worldwide with epilepsy, the exchange of electrical signals between cells in their brain can sometimes go haywire and cause a seizure—often with little to no warning. Two researchers at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette have developed a new AI-powered model that can predict the occurrence of seizures up to one hour before onset with 99.6 percent accuracy.
"Due to unexpected seizure times, epilepsy has a strong psychological and social effect on patients," explains Hisham Daoud, a researcher who co-developed the new model.
Detecting seizures ahead of time could greatly improve the quality of life for patients with epilepsy and provide them with enough time to take action, he says. Notably, seizures are controllable with medication in up to 70 percent of these patients.
Efficient Epileptic Seizure Prediction Based on Deep Learning$, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems (DOI: 10.1109/TBCAS.2019.2929053)
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(Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Sunday November 17 2019, @10:20PM (3 children)
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(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 17 2019, @10:38PM (2 children)
Is there any research into why people make such poor medical decisions? Their brains must be somehow switched off, since this can't be explained just plain stupidity. At the end of the day, our DNA differs from a monkey by only 2%. That is probably why people blindly trust medical researchers. I think dolphins brains would be much better at making proper decisions, but you will find ZERO research on transplanting dolphin heads/brains onto human bodies.
(Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Sunday November 17 2019, @11:01PM (1 child)
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(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Monday November 18 2019, @02:59AM
I had a colleague with peptic ulcers in 1991 - shortly after the hoopla went widespread that they could be treated with antibiotics. He and his doctor had nothing against antibiotics, but they wouldn't use them to treat his ulcers... people can be very stubborn, and often for no reason whatsoever.
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