OREANDA-NEWS The program for the diagnosis of epilepsy, which helps to reduce the routine work of a doctor by 95%, was developed by specialists of the I.Kant BFU together with other Russian scientists. According to them, the development has no direct analogues in the world. The results are published in Applied Science.

Epilepsy is a dangerous neurological disease, which, according to WHO, affects up to 50 million people in the world. Its main symptoms are the so–called seizures, in which pathological synchronization of brain neurons occurs. As experts explained, seizures often pass without external signs, so many people may not suspect that they are sick.

For the diagnosis and treatment of this disease, electroencephalography (EEG) is used in clinical practice, which allows recording the electrical activity of the brain. Existing methods involve "manual" processing of EEG results by a doctor, which can take up to six hours for one patient. Scientists of the Baltic Federal University named after Kant (BFU named after I.Kant), together with specialists of the National Medical and Surgical Center named after N.I. Pirogov, developed a program capable of independently searching in the EEG data array for signs of abnormal electroactivity characteristic of a seizure state. According to the creators, the proposed algorithm will become the basis of a medical decision-making support system.