Artificial Intelligence May Speed up Epilepsy Diagnoses, Study...

A newly developed artificial intelligence (AI) system could help expedite the diagnosis of epileptic conditions such as Dravet syndrome. The AI system was described in a study, titled "A propositional AI system for supporting epilepsy diagnosis based on the 2017 epilepsy classification: Illustrated by Dravet syndrome," in the journal Epilepsy & Behavior. Epilepsy is a broad disease category for many different conditions that involve seizures. Properly diagnosing epileptic conditions can be a challenge, especially given their different causes and symptoms. For example, mutations in the SCN1A gene are the most common cause of Dravet syndrome, but not all people with Dravet syndrome have such mutations, and SCN1A mutations can also be associated with other conditions, such as febrile seizures plus.