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ReviewCurrent neurology and neuroscience reports2023

Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence Applications to Epilepsy: a Review for the Practicing Epileptologist.

Wesley T Kerr, Katherine N McFarlane

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Review in Current neurology and neuroscience reports, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 32 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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32citing papers in PubMed, 3 pooled it
9.1field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

32 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 41 citations in OpenAlex.

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  9. Unsupervised clustering of electroclinical features in temporal lobe epilepsy: A data-driven approach.Epileptic disorders : international epilepsy journal with videotape · 2026
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  19. Electroencephalography-driven brain-network models for personalized interpretation and prediction of neural oscillations.Clinical neurophysiology : official journal of the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Wesley T KerrDepartment of Neurology, University of Pittsburgh, 3471 Fifth Ave, Kaufmann 811.22, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, USA. KerrW@Pitt.edu.
Katherine N McFarlaneDepartment of Neurology, University of Pittsburgh, 3471 Fifth Ave, Kaufmann 811.22, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, USA.
University of Pittsburgh · US

Funding

UM Clinical Neuroscientist Training ProgramR25NS089450 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI ALBIN, ROGER L · 2014 to 2023
$1.3M
NINDS NIH HHS R25 NS089450
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purpose of reviewMachine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) are data-driven techniques to translate raw data into applicable and interpretable insights that can assist in clinical decision making. Some of these tools have extremely promising initial results, earning both great excitement and creating hype. This non-technical article reviews recent developments in ML/AI in epilepsy to assist the current practicing epileptologist in understanding both the benefits and limitations of integrating ML/AI tools into their clinical practice. RECENT

findingsML/AI tools have been developed to assist clinicians in almost every clinical decision including (1) predicting future epilepsy in people at risk, (2) detecting and monitoring for seizures, (3) differentiating epilepsy from mimics, (4) using data to improve neuroanatomic localization and lateralization, and (5) tracking and predicting response to medical and surgical treatments. We also discuss practical, ethical, and equity considerations in the development and application of ML/AI tools including chatbots based on Large Language Models (e.g., ChatGPT). ML/AI tools will change how clinical medicine is practiced, but, with rare exceptions, the transferability to other centers, effectiveness, and safety of these approaches have not yet been established rigorously. In the future, ML/AI will not replace epileptologists, but epileptologists with ML/AI will replace epileptologists without ML/AI.

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Artificial IntelligenceEpilepsyHumansMachine LearningComputer-aided decision makingComputer-aided decision supportNatural language processingNeural networksSeizures

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PMID38060133
OpenAlexW4389444860

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