Publications by authors named "Gritsch G"

Background: Self-recorded EEG by patients at home might present a viable alternative to inpatient epilepsy evaluations.

Objectives And Methods: We developed a novel telemonitoring system comprising seamlessly integrated hard- and software with automated AI-based EEG analysis.

Results: The first complete study participation results demonstrate feasibility and clinical utility.

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Objective: Focal seizure symptoms (FSS) and focal interictal epileptiform discharges (IEDs) are common in patients with idiopathic generalized epilepsies (IGEs), but dedicated studies systematically quantifying them both are lacking. We used automatic IED detection and localization algorithms and correlated these EEG findings with clinical FSS for the first time in IGE patients.

Methods: 32 patients with IGEs undergoing long-term video EEG monitoring were systematically analyzed regarding focal vs.

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Background: Exchange of EEG data among institutions is complicated due to vendor-specific proprietary EEG file formats. The DICOM standard, which has long been used for storage and exchange of imaging studies, was expanded to store neurophysiology data in 2020.

Objectives: To implement DICOM as an interoperable and vendor-independent storage format for EEG recordings in the Clinic Hietzing.

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Ultra-long-term electroencephalographic (EEG) registration using minimally invasive low-channel devices is an emerging technology to assess sporadic seizure events. Highly sensitive automatic seizure detection algorithms are needed for semiautomatic evaluation of these prolonged recordings. We describe the design and validation of a deep neural network for two-channel seizure detection.

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EEG monitoring of early brain function and development in neonatal intensive care units may help to identify infants with high risk of serious neurological impairment and to assess brain maturation for evaluation of neurodevelopmental progress. Automated analysis of EEG data makes continuous evaluation of brain activity fast and accessible. A convolutional neural network (CNN) for regression of EEG maturational age of premature neonates from marginally preprocessed serial EEG recordings is proposed.

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Objective: To validate an artificial intelligence-based computer algorithm for detection of epileptiform EEG discharges (EDs) and subsequent identification of patients with epilepsy.

Methods: We developed an algorithm for automatic detection of EDs, based on a novel deep learning method that requires a low amount of labeled EEG data for training. Detected EDs are automatically grouped into clusters, consisting of the same type of EDs, for rapid visual inspection.

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Objective: To test the diagnostic accuracy of a new automatic algorithm for ictal onset source localization (IOSL) during routine presurgical epilepsy evaluation following STARD (Standards for Reporting of Diagnostic Accuracy) criteria.

Methods: We included 28 consecutive patients with refractory focal epilepsy (25 patients with temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) and 3 with extratemporal epilepsy) who underwent resective epilepsy surgery. Ictal EEG patterns were analyzed with a novel automatic IOSL algorithm.

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A high density wireless electroencephalographic (EEG) platform has been designed. It is able to record up to 64 EEG channels with electrode to tissue impedance (ETI) monitoring. The analog front-end is based on two kinds of low power ASICs implementing the active electrodes and the amplifier.

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Aim Of The Study: A novel method for removal of artifacts from long-term EEGs was developed and evaluated. The method targets most types of artifacts and works without user interaction.

Materials And Methods: The method is based on a neurophysiological model and utilizes an iterative Bayesian estimation scheme.

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Automatic EEG-processing systems such as seizure detection systems are more and more in use to cope with the large amount of data that arises from long-term EEG-monitorings. Since artifacts occur very often during the recordings and disturb the EEG-processing, it is crucial for these systems to have a good automatic artifact detection. We present a novel, computationally inexpensive automatic artifact detection system that uses the spatial distribution of the EEG-signal and the location of the electrodes to detect artifacts on electrodes.

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In this paper we show advantages of using an advanced montage scheme with respect to the performance of automatic seizure detection systems. The main goal is to find the best performing montage scheme for our automatic seizure detection system. The new virtual montage is a fix set of dipoles within the brain.

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The detection of epileptic seizures in long-term electroencephalographic (EEG) recordings is a time-consuming and tedious task requiring specially trained medical experts. The EpiScan seizure detection algorithm developed by the Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT) has proven to achieve high detection performance with a robust false alarm rate in the clinical setting. This paper introduces a novel time domain method for detection of epileptic seizure patterns with focus on irregular and distorted rhythmic activity.

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In this paper we show a proof of concept for novel automatic seizure onset zone detector. The proposed approach utilizes the Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT) seizure detection system EpiScan extended by a frequency domain source localization module. EpiScan was proven to detect rhythmic epileptoform seizure activity often seen during the early phase of epileptic seizures with reasonable high sensitivity and specificity.

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