178 results match your criteria: "Visual Analysis of Neonatal EEG"

Prediction of Survival After Pediatric Cardiac Arrest Using Quantitative EEG and Machine Learning Techniques.

Neurology

December 2024

From the Department of Neurology (M.H., M.V., S.J., A.v.R., D.S., R.v.d.B.), Erasmus MC, University Medical Center; Department of Neonatal and Pediatric Intensive Care, Division of Pediatric Intensive Care (M.H., C.B.), Erasmus MC Children's Hospital, Rotterdam; and Delft Institute of Applied Mathematics (F.L., G.J.), Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands.

Background And Objectives: Early neuroprognostication in children with reduced consciousness after cardiac arrest (CA) is a major clinical challenge. EEG is frequently used for neuroprognostication in adults, but has not been sufficiently validated for this indication in children. Using machine learning techniques, we studied the predictive value of quantitative EEG (qEEG) features for survival 12 months after CA, based on EEG recordings obtained 24 hours after CA in children.

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Aim: Opioids might be harmful to the developing brain and dosing accuracy is important. We aimed at investigating fentanyl effects on cortical activity in infants using computational re-analysis of bedside recorded EEG signals.

Methods: Fifteen infants born at median 26.

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Early automated classification of neonatal hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy - An aid to the decision to use therapeutic hypothermia.

Clin Neurophysiol

October 2024

ULR 2694 - METRICS, University of Lille, Faculty of Medicine, Avenue Eugène Avinée, Lille F-59000, France; Department of Pediatric Neurology, CHU Lille, Hôpital Roger Salengro, Rue Emile Laine, Lille F-59000, France. Electronic address:

Objective: The study aimed to address the challenge of early assessment of neonatal hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) severity to identify candidates for therapeutic hypothermia (TH). The objective was to develop an automated classification model for neonatal EEGs, enabling accurate HIE severity assessment 24/7.

Methods: EEGs recorded within 6 h of life after perinatal anoxia were visually graded into 3 severity groups (HIE French Classification) and quantified using 6 qEEG markers measuring amplitude, continuity and frequency content.

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. Automated detection of artefact in stimulus-evoked electroencephalographic (EEG) data recorded in neonates will improve the reproducibility and speed of analysis in clinical research compared with manual identification of artefact. Some studies use very short, single-channel epochs of EEG data with little recorded EEG per infant-for example because the clinical vulnerability of the infants limits access for recording.

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Objective: We investigated whether sensory-evoked cortical potentials could be used to estimate the age of an infant. Such a model could be used to identify infants who deviate from normal neurodevelopment.

Methods: Infants aged between 28- and 40-weeks post-menstrual age (PMA) (166 recording sessions in 96 infants) received trains of visual and tactile stimuli.

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A Bedside Method for Measuring Effects of a Sedative Drug on Cerebral Function in Newborn Infants.

Sensors (Basel)

December 2022

BABA Center, Departments of Pediatrics and Clinical Neurophysiology, Children's Hospital, Helsinki University Hospital Helsinki, 00029 Helsinki, Finland.

Background: Data on the cerebral effects of analgesic and sedative drugs are needed for the development of safe and effective treatments during neonatal intensive care. Electroencephalography (EEG) is an objective, but interpreter-dependent method for monitoring cortical activity. Quantitative computerized analyses might reveal EEG changes otherwise not detectable.

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Early predictors of neurodevelopment after perinatal arterial ischemic stroke: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Pediatr Res

July 2023

Department of Neonatology, University Medical Center Utrecht Brain Center and Wilhelmina Children's Hospital, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands.

Background And Aims: Perinatal arterial ischemic stroke (PAIS) often has lifelong neurodevelopmental consequences. We aimed to review early predictors (<4 months of age) of long-term outcome.

Methods: We carried out a systematic literature search (PubMed and Embase), and included articles describing term-born infants with PAIS that underwent a diagnostic procedure within four months of age, and had any reported outcome parameter ≥12 months of age.

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This study aimed to follow the neurotoxic effect of peat smoke on adult outbred rats and its influence on central nervous system (CNS) parameters in first-generation offspring. Under experimental conditions, exposure to peat smoke was carried out on adult male Wistar rats for 24 h. After the end of the exposure, an open field test (OFT), electroencephalography (EEG), and histological analysis of the testes and brains of smoke-exposed males were performed, after which they were mated with intact females to obtain F1 offspring.

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We aimed to analyze whether complexity of brain electrical activity (EEG) measured by multiscale entropy (MSE) increases with brain maturation during the first two years of life. We also aimed to investigate whether this complexity shows regional differences across the brain, and whether changes in complexity are influenced by extrauterine life experience duration.We measured MSE of EEG signals recorded longitudinally using a high-density setup (64 or 128 electrodes) in 84 typically developing infants born preterm (<32 weeks' gestation) from term age to two years.

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Background: Artefact removal in neonatal electroencephalography (EEG) by visual inspection generally depends on the expertise of the operator, is time consuming and is not a consistent pre-processing step to the pipeline for the automated EEG analysis. Therefore, there is the need for the automated detection and removal of artefacts in neonatal EEG, especially of distinct and predominant artefacts such as flat line segments (mainly caused by instrumental error where contact between electrodes and head box is lost) and large amplitude fluctuations (related to neonatal movements).

Method: A threshold-based algorithm for the automated detection and removal of flat line segments and large amplitude fluctuations in neonatal EEG of infants at term-equivalent age is developed.

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The study proposes a novel method to empower healthcare professionals to interact and leverage AI decision support in an intuitive manner using auditory senses. The method's suitability is assessed through acoustic detection of the presence of neonatal seizures in electroencephalography (EEG). Neurophysiologists use EEG recordings to identify seizures visually.

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Prematurity can result in widespread neurodevelopmental impairment, with the impact of premature extrauterine exposure on brain function detectable in infancy. A range of neurodynamic and haemodynamic functional brain measures have previously been employed to study the neurodevelopmental impact of prematurity, with methodological and analytical heterogeneity across studies obscuring how multiple sensory systems are affected. Here, we outline a standardised template analysis approach to measure evoked response magnitudes for visual, tactile, and noxious stimulation in individual infants (n = 15) using EEG.

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This study explores the feasibility of implementation of an analysis framework of neonatal EEG, including ML, sonification and intuitive visualization, on a low power IoT edge device. Electroencephalography (EEG) analysis is a very important tool to detect brain disorders. Neonatal seizure detection is a known, challenging problem.

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Fast oscillations (FOs) >40 Hz in electroencephalograms (EEGs) are associated with ictogenesis and epileptogenesis in adults and children with epilepsy. However, only a few previous studies showed FOs in neonates. Reported frequencies of such neonatal FOs were in the low-gamma (<60 Hz) band and, therefore, they were not high compared to those in pediatric patients.

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A Rare Cause of Epilepsy: Ulegyria Revisited in a Series of 10 Patients.

Clin EEG Neurosci

March 2022

Medical Faculty, Department of Neurology, Epilepsy Center, Bursa Uludag University, Bursa, Turkey.

Ulegyria results from perinatal hypoxic-ischemic brain injury in term infants. The specific mushroom-shaped configuration of ulegyria results from small atrophic circumvolutions at the bottom of a sulcus underlying an intact gyral apex. Clinically, ulegyria is generally associated with epilepsy.

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Hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) remains to be a major cause of long-term neurodevelopmental deficits in term neonates. Hypothermia offers partial neuroprotection warranting research for additional therapies. Kynurenic acid (KYNA), an endogenous product of tryptophan metabolism, was previously shown to be beneficial in rat HIE models.

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Pilot study of a single-channel EEG seizure detection algorithm using machine learning.

Childs Nerv Syst

July 2021

Department of Pediatric Neurosurgery, Severance Children's Hospital, Yonsei University College of Medicine, 50-1 Yonsei-ro, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul, 03722, Korea.

Objective: Seizures are one of the most common emergencies in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). They are identified through visual inspection of electroencephalography (EEG) reports and treated by neurophysiologic experts. To support clinical seizure detection, several feature-based automatic neonatal seizure detection algorithms have been proposed.

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Quantitative approach to early neonatal EEG visual analysis in hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy severity: Bridging the gap between eyes and machine.

Neurophysiol Clin

March 2021

EA4489, Environnement périnatal et santé, Faculté de médecine, Université de Lille, 2 Avenue Eugène Avinée, 59120 Loos, France; Service de Neurologie pédiatrique, Hôpital Roger Salengro, CHRU de Lille, Avenue du Professeur Emile Laine, 59037, France.

Article Synopsis
  • The study aimed to identify key quantitative measures from conventional EEGs that can help classify the severity of neonatal hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) shortly after birth.
  • Researchers analyzed 90 EEGs from full-term infants, categorizing them into three groups based on HIE severity and finding that six specific EEG parameters could differentiate between these groups with up to 70% accuracy.
  • The findings suggest that these EEG measures can serve as important early indicators of HIE severity, and the lack of difference in pH and lactate levels highlights the importance of using EEG for better clinical assessment.
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Sleep is a key process in neurodevelopment and essential for the maturation of fundamental brain functions. Premature birth can disturb the initial steps of sleep maturation, which may contribute to the impairment of neurodevelopment. It is thus fundamental to understand the maturation of the various sleep states and the quality of cerebral function in each vigilance state, as well as the development of sleep cyclicity, in at-risk neonatal infants, particularly those born premature.

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Novel LRPPRC compound heterozygous mutation in a child with early-onset Leigh syndrome French-Canadian type: case report of an Italian patient.

Ital J Pediatr

September 2020

Department of Health Promotion, Mother and Child Care, Internal Medicine and Medical Specialties "G. D'Alessandro". University Hospital "P.Giaccone", University of Palermo, Piazza delle Cliniche, 2, 90127, Palermo, Italy.

Article Synopsis
  • Mitochondrial diseases, including Leigh Syndrome French Canadian type (LSFC), are inherited metabolic disorders with a prevalence of 1:5000, caused by LRPPRC gene mutations and more common in specific populations like the French Canadians.
  • A case study details a preterm male Italian child with a novel compound heterozygous LRPPRC mutation, showing symptoms like facial dysmorphisms, severe developmental delays, and abnormal brain imaging, but without common metabolic decompensation episodes.
  • Genetic testing confirmed the compound mutations (one from each parent), highlighting the broader occurrence of LSFC outside traditional populations and emphasizing the need for awareness of these genetic conditions.
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Hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) is still a major cause of neonatal death and disability as therapeutic hypothermia (TH) alone cannot afford sufficient neuroprotection. The present study investigated whether ventilation with molecular hydrogen (2.1% H) or graded restoration of normocapnia with CO for 4 h after asphyxia would augment the neuroprotective effect of TH in a subacute (48 h) HIE piglet model.

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Reliability and accuracy of EEG interpretation for estimating age in preterm infants.

Ann Clin Transl Neurol

September 2020

BABA Center, Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, Children's Hospital, Helsinki University Hospital, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.

Objectives: To determine the accuracy of, and agreement among, EEG and aEEG readers' estimation of maturity and a novel computational measure of functional brain age (FBA) in preterm infants.

Methods: Seven experts estimated the postmenstrual ages (PMA) in a cohort of recordings from preterm infants using cloud-based review software. The FBA was calculated using a machine learning-based algorithm.

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Machine-learning-based diagnostics of EEG pathology.

Neuroimage

October 2020

Neuromedical AI Lab, Department of Neurosurgery, Medical Center - University of Freiburg, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Engelbergerstr. 21, 79106, Freiburg, Germany; Freiburg Epilepsy Center, Department of Neurosurgery, Medical Center - University of Freiburg, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Breisacher Str. 64, 79106, Freiburg, Germany.

Machine learning (ML) methods have the potential to automate clinical EEG analysis. They can be categorized into feature-based (with handcrafted features), and end-to-end approaches (with learned features). Previous studies on EEG pathology decoding have typically analyzed a limited number of features, decoders, or both.

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Amplitude integrated EEG (aEEG) is increasingly utilized in preterm infants. The aim of the study was to evaluate whether semiquantitative visual assessment of aEEG background during the first 72 hours of life is associated with long-term outcome in a group of premature infants born less than 28 weeks' gestation. Infants were prospectively enrolled and monitored in the first 72 hours after birth.

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