Epilepsy AI tool detects brain lesions doctors miss

Study co-author and childhood epilepsy consultant Prof Helen Cross said it had the potential "to rapidly identify abnormalities that can be removed and potentially cure the epilepsy". Uncontrolled epilepsy was "incapacitating", she said. Many of the children she sees as a consultant at Great Ormond Street Hospital have had years of seizures and investigations before a lesion is found. Charity Epilepsy Action said the new AI tool's potential was "really exciting" and could give people faster diagnosis, but did not solve the issue of lack of specialist epilepsy nurses in England. "It remains early days and, as always, we must proceed with caution," said Ley Sander from the Epilepsy Society, adding that if the tool could identify more people as candidates for brain surgery, that could be "life-changing for many more people with epilepsy".