Electroencephalography and brain magnetic resonance imaging in asphyxia comparing cooled and non-cooled infants.

Objective: The aim was to establish any differences in the predictive value of EEG and MRI for outcome in infants treated and not-treated with therapeutic hypothermia (HT) for perinatal asphyxia. We hypothesize that they are equally predictive and that combining both has the highest predictive value.

Study Design: We retrospectively compared data of infants with hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) who received HT (n = 45) between September 2009 and December 2013 with those of infants with HIE born between January 2004 and August 2009, before HT was available (NT, n = 37).

Weighted Performance Metrics for Automatic Neonatal Seizure Detection Using Multiscored EEG Data.

In neonatal intensive care units, there is a need for around the clock monitoring of electroencephalogram (EEG), especially for recognizing seizures. An automated seizure detector with an acceptable performance can partly fill this need. In order to develop a detector, an extensive dataset labeled by experts is needed.

Interrater agreement in visual scoring of neonatal seizures based on majority voting on a web-based system: The Neoguard EEG database.

Objective: To assess interrater agreement based on majority voting in visual scoring of neonatal seizures.

Methods: An online platform was designed based on a multicentre seizure EEG-database. Consensus decision based on 'majority voting' and interrater agreement was estimated using Fleiss' Kappa.