seizure detection

Wearable EEG monitoring start-up Epitel raises $12.5M to market seizure detection system

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Epi­tel rais­es $12.5M for wear­able seizure detec­tion sys­tem (Mobi­Health News):

Epi­tel, mak­er of a wear­able elec­troen­cephalo­gram (EEG) sys­tem for seizure detec­tion, announced Wednes­day it had scored $12.5 mil­lion in Series A funding.

The round was led by Cat­a­lyst Health Ven­tures (CHV) and Genoa Ven­tures, with par­tic­i­pa­tion from Dex­com, OSF Ven­tures, Wave­mak­er 360, Med­Moun­tain Ven­tures and Salt Lake City Angels … The com­pa­ny’s first prod­uct, the REMI sys­tem, con­sists of a wear­able, wire­less EEG sen­sor that’s applied below the hair­line, and soft­ware for providers to review data and mon­i­tor for seizures. The sen­sor can con­tin­u­ous­ly mon­i­tor patients for 48 hours. [Read more…] about Wear­able EEG mon­i­tor­ing start-up Epi­tel rais­es $12.5M to mar­ket seizure detec­tion system

Study: Wearable sensors and machine learning may well (one day) help detect a broad range of epileptic seizures

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Wear­able Device Clears a First ‘Mile­stone’ in Seizure Detec­tion (Med­scape; requires subscription):

A wrist-worn device that uses machine learn­ing accu­rate­ly detects dif­fer­ent seizure types in find­ings that have the poten­tial to rev­o­lu­tion­ize the man­age­ment of patients with epilepsy.

“We have set a first bench­mark for auto­mat­ic detec­tion of a vari­ety of epilep­tic seizures using wear­able sen­sors and deep-learn­ing algo­rithms. In oth­er words, we have shown for the first time that it’s pos­si­ble to do this,” study inves­ti­ga­tor Jian­bin Tang, MA, Data Sci­ence Project Lead, IBM Research Aus­tralia, Vic­to­ria, told Med­scape Med­ical News. [Read more…] about Study: Wear­able sen­sors and machine learn­ing may well (one day) help detect a broad range of epilep­tic seizures

Next in clinical practice: Automated real-time detection of seizures via wearable EMG devices

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(A) The wear­able device placed on the brachial biceps mus­cles. (B, C) The wear­able device, which is con­nect­ed to the self-adhe­sive patch, con­tain­ing the record­ing elec­trodes and the ground elec­trode. (D) Remote con­trol of the device. (Epilep­tic seizure Detec­tor Devel­oped by Ictal­Care). Cred­it: Neurology.

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Wear­able EMG Found to Detect Seizures (Neu­rol­o­gy Today):

“A new study demon­strates the fea­si­bil­i­ty of using a wear­able elec­tromyo­g­ra­phy device to detect ton­ic-clonic seizures…The Neu­rol­o­gy paper was among the first to demon­strate its results prospec­tive­ly, using a pre-spec­i­fied cut-off for deter­min­ing that a GTCS is occur­ring. And at nine sec­onds, its laten­cy in doing so (from the time of onset as mea­sured by an inde­pen­dent observ­er) is also among the fastest described so far, the study authors and inde­pen­dent experts not­ed… [Read more…] about Next in clin­i­cal prac­tice: Auto­mat­ed real-time detec­tion of seizures via wear­able EMG devices