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Current Practices in Epilepsy Monitoring; Future Prospects and the ARMOR Challenge

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Cyberphysical Systems for Epilepsy and Related Brain Disorders

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Methods and hardware for EEG recording are advancing rapidly with novel solutions approaching the performance of EEG recordings with conventional electrodes. The prime mover of the new solutions is the electronic game industry. Although there are some common desirable characteristics needed by EEG measurements in both the game industry and for home monitoring of epilepsy there are differences too, primarily in the demands for high signal quality, and this is where the new solutions are naturally still insufficient for clinical applications. Advances in the signal analysis are more mature with the use of tomographic estimates of activity from MEG but also from EEG data opening new ways for advancing the capability and usefulness of home monitoring for epilepsy management. The combination of the advances in EEG hardware and data analysis together with genetic and anatomical information for individual subjects coupled to powerful data mining techniques for “big data” is likely to revolutionize the monitoring and management of epilepsy.

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    Andreas A. Ioannides & Vahe Poghosyan

  2. Neurophysiology Unit, Department of Physiology, Medical School, University of Patras, Patras, Greece

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Ioannides, A.A., Poghosyan, V., Kostopoulos, G.K. (2015). Current Practices in Epilepsy Monitoring; Future Prospects and the ARMOR Challenge. In: Voros, N., Antonopoulos, C. (eds) Cyberphysical Systems for Epilepsy and Related Brain Disorders. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20049-1_5

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