August 21, 18:00
Scientists from Tomsk State University, together with experts of the Russian Academy of Sciences, have developed a system for automatically fixing epilepsy attacks in rats. This development will help in the diagnosis of a complex form of the disease.
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According to RIA Tomsk, the system works on the basis of artificial intelligence, which automatically analyzes brain activity data. It deciphers the records of electrical activity of the cerebral cortex – electrocorticograms (ECOG). The algorithm determines in the graphs of the peak-wave discharges, which are a key marker of abscess epilepsy attacks.
This form of the disease is especially complicated for diagnosis, since it is manifested not by convulsions, but by very short -term (for a few seconds) episodes of disconnection of consciousness, which often go unnoticed.
The accuracy of the algorithm is already reaching 88% of the complex metric F1-Score, which is one of the best indicators in the world for such tasks.
Currently, the system is tested in experiments on laboratory rats, which are a classic model for studying this disease. In the long run, this discovery will help create new, more effective approaches to the diagnosis and treatment of the disease in people. According to the World Health Organization, about 50 million people around the world suffer from epilepsy.
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