Medscape December 11, 2024
LOS ANGELES — Artificial intelligence (AI) analysis of caregiver-recorded videos has the potential to diagnose infantile epileptic spasm syndrome, according to a new study.
Infants with the condition can have poor outcomes with even small delays in diagnosis and ensuing treatment, potentially leading to intellectual disability, autism, and worse epilepsy. “It’s super important to start the treatment early, but oftentimes, these symptoms are just misrecognized by primary care or ER physicians. It takes a long time to diagnose,” said Gadi Miron, MD, who presented the study on December 7 at the American Epilepsy Society (AES) 78th Annual Meeting 2024.
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