Race/ethnicity, sex, and socioeconomic status as predictors of outcome after surgery for temporal lobe epilepsy.

Background: Several risk factors have been attributed to seizure recurrence after surgery. It is unknown whether race/ethnicity plays a role in outcome.

Objective: To evaluate whether race/ethnicity plays a role in seizure recurrence after surgery.

Seizure detection: correlation of human experts.

Objective: The description and application of a new, overlap-integral comparison method and the quantification of human vs. human accuracies that can be used as goals for algorithms.

Methods: Four human experts marked ten 8 h electroencephalography (EEG) records from seizure patients.