Computer-Aided Diagnosis Software for Neurological Diseases
Of the nearly 15,000 surgical candidates for intractable, focal temporal lobe epilepsy only ~400 patients are treated per year, due in part ot the unavailability of the necessary technology for localizing the seizure focus, or the high cost of preoperaive evaluation using surgically implanted electroencephalogram (SEEG). Alzheimer`s dementia (AD) compromises the majority of over 60,000 new cases of dementia per year in the aging Canadian population. With this invention, epilepsy clinics and surgery wards could have easy access to this necessary preoperative information and/or replace the SEEG evaluation procedure, reducing its cost by nearly 95%. Early AD diagnosis using the invention stands to make a major international impact by enabling treatment to delay disease progression, finding wide potential use in memory clinics. Pharmaceutical companies could use this invention for drug development and evaluation in clinical trials.
McGill researchers have developed a completely automated software tool for the classification and early detection of neurological diseases.
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