Detects, logs and signals
silent, difficult to notice
epileptic absence seizures.
epihunter
Epihunter is a Belgian startup building digital solutions to help normalize the daily life of people with epilepsy. They detect, log and signals silent, difficult to notice epileptic absence seizures. Epihunter simply turns on a light when the brain switches off.
The problem
Absence seizures are the silent, often unnoticed epilepsy seizures which pauses the person’s brain and causes the affected person to not register anything in their vicinity for a short period heime. These seizures occur at random and their frequency can vary significantly from a couple of seizures per day to a couple of seizures per month. They have a tremendous impact on the quality of life of 150,000 young children. Unawareness of the person’s environment results in low self-esteem and frustration.
Epihunter’s solution?
Using electroencephalogram (EEG) data, it is possible to record and detect these seizures. In combination with a headset, Epihunter developed an Android application capable of monitoring live EEG-data and showing feedback if a seizure was detected.
All recorded data gets sent to an online web platform, which the users can access using a dashboard.
The solution
The solution Sentigrate worked out consisted of 3 steps:
To be completed …
+90%
increase in sensitivity
Increase in sensitivity and specificity
The machine learning model was verified on both clinical data and real life data collected by Epihunter.
Both achieved a sensitivity (true positive rate) of more than 90%, meaning on average nine in ten seizures are correctly detected. But also the specificity (true negative rate) is above 90%, meaning a detection is right in nine out of ten cases.
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