An artificial-pruning device can detect two-thirds of epilepsy brain lesions, often missing, UK researchers have developed it, who paves the way for more targeted surgery to prevent seizures, .

One of every five people with epilepsy – a total of 30,000 in the UK – is very subtle for the human eye to see uncontrolled seizures due to brain abnormalities on the scan.

Experts at hair epilepsy say that the AI ​​device has “huge capacity” and opens the way for treatment.

But patients require more studies on long -term benefits before it can be licensed and used in clinics.

Focal cortical dysplasia called brain abnormalities is a common cause of epilepsy, especially when the drug cannot control seizure.

Seizures affect people through different methods – symptoms include shocks and shocks, rigid and losing awareness – and this can mean regular seizures for accidents and emerging units.

Removing a small portion of the brain can be a safe and effective way to stop them – but if radiologists cannot see small wounds on the brain scan, diagnosis, treatment and surgery may be delayed.

For this study, Published in Jama NeurologyResearchers from King’s College London and University College London scans their tool magnetic-resonance-emaging (MRI) in 23 hospitals around the world with over 1,185 adults and children, of which 703 had brain abnormalities.

Tools, melted graphs, were able to process images more quickly than a doctor – in more detail – which can mean more timely treatment and less expensive tests and procedures, lead researcher Dr. Konrad Wagsteile said.

However, AI would require human monitoring, and many abnormalities were still left.

“It is like finding a character on five pages of solid black text,” Dr. Wagsteile said.

“You can find two -thirds about AI who miss doctors – but a third is still difficult to find.”

At a hospital in Italy, the device identified a subtle lesion recalled by a radiologist, a 12-year-old boy who tried nine different drugs, but still seized every day.

Professor Helen Cross, a study co-writer and advisor to childhood epilepsy, stated that it is “the ability to rapidly identify abnormalities that can be removed and potentially cured epilepsy”.

The uncontrolled epilepsy was “disabled”, he said.

Many of the children she sees as a consultant at the Great Ormand Street Hospital has been seized and investigated before a wound is found.

Charity epilepsy action stated that the capacity of the new AI tool was “really exciting” and could diagnose people rapidly, but did not solve the issue of lack of epilepsy nurses specialized in England.

Lender of epilepsy society said, “It lives in the early days and as usual, we should move forward with caution.” People with epilepsy “.

Researchers are expecting official approval to use the meld graph as a diagnostic tool – but the first other tests are required to check long -term benefits for patients that have detected brain lesions.

Meanwhile, the research team has made the equipment available on open-source software, so it can be used for clinical research by hospitals around the world.