"In the neural ICU, there are nurses actually monitoring the patient and looking for signs on the EEG. But sometimes they have to leave the room, and these are acute conditions," said Pahuja. An abnormal reading or alarm could mean an epileptic episode, or a stroke, or something else - nurses don't have that training, and even specialist doctors may recognize one but not the other.
"I have experience with this, and I mean I've been sitting next to neurologists in the operating room to understand exactly why these brainwaves are useful, and how we can build computational systems to identify them," said Sakellariou. "They're helpful in many contexts, but every time you use an EEG device, you have to rebuild the whole system for that specific problem. You need to get new data, you need to have humans annotate the data from scratch."
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