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posted by chromas on Sunday November 17 2019, @07:20PM   Printer-friendly

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: 0, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 17 2019, @07:34PM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 17 2019, @07:34PM (#921293)

    Siezures are caused by the brain trying to compensate for chaotic muscle contractions, so it makes sense it would be easy to predict them from electrical activity. Look at every siezure treatment, it always includes muscle relaxers. Just one more thing where medical researchers reversed cause and effect...

    • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 17 2019, @10:10PM (3 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 17 2019, @10:10PM (#921314)

      Anyone who doesn't parrot what it says in the textbook must be a "troll", I wonder what type of person modded it that way?

      A. Government employee
      B. Destitute/Indebted
      C. Republicrat
      D. All of the above

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 18 2019, @12:17AM (1 child)

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 18 2019, @12:17AM (#921343)

        Anyone who can't back up their statements with, you know, *facts* should expect to be modded down.

        Anyone who then complains about getting modded down by attacking reference books is obviously an idiot and should definitely have been modded down.

        QED.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 18 2019, @05:38PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 18 2019, @05:38PM (#921598)

        they're just bootlicking slaves. fuck them.

  • (Score: 3, Informative) by JoeMerchant on Sunday November 17 2019, @08:06PM (2 children)

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Sunday November 17 2019, @08:06PM (#921300)

    They didn't call it AI then, but SSDD - same stuff, different decade:

    https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/1198251 [ieee.org]

    Warnings an average of 71.7 minutes before onset...

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    • (Score: 3, Informative) by darkfeline on Sunday November 17 2019, @10:20PM (1 child)

      by darkfeline (1030) on Sunday November 17 2019, @10:20PM (#921315) Homepage

      Your article says:

      > A fixed parameter setting applied to all cases predicted 82% of seizures with a false prediction rate of 0.16/h.

      That's a bit different than 99.6%.

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      • (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Monday November 18 2019, @02:49AM

        by JoeMerchant (3937) on Monday November 18 2019, @02:49AM (#921388)

        In 2008 I worked with the researchers further developing those algorithms... the whole thing was done on spit and good intentions, if you read in the 2003 abstract: 5 subjects. What is 5 subjects in statistical significance terms? Usually worse than nothing. The data was ridiculously onerous (HIPAA) and expensive to collect, and even more expensive to obtain independent interpretation of - which is why, after 20 years of dicking around with Lyapunov exponents, they had made so precious little progress.

        I'm glad that slapping an AI/machine learning label on it got some fresh funding into the process... maybe the new methods even work a little better than the old ones, but... I believe the real key is in collection and application of "big" data. Size matters, usually more than technique.

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  • (Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Sunday November 17 2019, @09:02PM (5 children)

    by barbara hudson (6443) <barbara.Jane.hudson@icloud.com> on Sunday November 17 2019, @09:02PM (#921303) Journal
    Mine could tell when I was about to pass out from low blood sugar,,and are a lot more portable than an AI. Plus, a lot more reassuring to wake up to, and better at keeping people at a distance when it happens in public.
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    • (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Sunday November 17 2019, @09:06PM (4 children)

      by JoeMerchant (3937) on Sunday November 17 2019, @09:06PM (#921305)

      And, you don't look as silly - those electrode caps have never been stylish.

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      • (Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Sunday November 17 2019, @10:20PM (3 children)

        by barbara hudson (6443) <barbara.Jane.hudson@icloud.com> on Sunday November 17 2019, @10:20PM (#921316) Journal
        They can always hide them under a colander and claim they're part of the church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. The seizures happen when they're touched by his holy noodle-y appendage
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        • (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 17 2019, @10:38PM (2 children)

          by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 17 2019, @10:38PM (#921319)

          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)

            by barbara hudson (6443) <barbara.Jane.hudson@icloud.com> on Sunday November 17 2019, @11:01PM (#921326) Journal
            Probably for the same reasons people stay o medications for years that don't work. The whole chemical imbalance in the brain " as the cause for depression has been debunked (it was ultimately just marketspeak) but people are afraid to take responsibility for their own outcomes. And same as any other branch of science, most of a generation had to die off before new ideas can take hold. OxyContin is non-addictive, steady-state vs Big Bang, stress vs bacteria for peptic ulcers, climate change, etc.

            https://www.madinamerica.com/2019/11/fear-belief-chemical-imbalance-prevent-people-coming-off-antidepressants/ [madinamerica.com]

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            • (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Monday November 18 2019, @02:59AM

              by JoeMerchant (3937) on Monday November 18 2019, @02:59AM (#921393)

              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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  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 18 2019, @12:11AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 18 2019, @12:11AM (#921341)

    I did some digging and their data set has some weird edge case sources. They were able to predict the publish dates of all Runaway's journals.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 18 2019, @12:34AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 18 2019, @12:34AM (#921352)

    My drugs/guns/trafficked women get seized at the border all the time.

    With software like this, I could triple my revenue!

    • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 18 2019, @05:41AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 18 2019, @05:41AM (#921439)

      My drugs/guns/trafficked women get seized at the border all the time.

      With software like this, I could triple my revenue!

      Given that "all the time", don't bother. 3 x 0 is still 0

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