The Seizure Detection Challenge: $8,000 Prize

Dear IEEG-Portal users,

The American Epilepsy Society, National Institutes of Health (NINDS), University of Pennsylvania, Mayo Clinic, and Kaggle.com announce the Seizure Detection Challenge:

https://www.kaggle.com/c/seizure-detection

This competition challenges the best minds in machine learning worldwide to improve devices to track and treat epilepsy. Contestants will analyze prolonged intracranial EEG recorded from four dogs with naturally occurring epilepsy and from 8 patients with medication resistant seizures during evaluation for epilepsy surgery. The group that can identify the earliest EEG changes leading to seizures with the fewest false alarms wins!

The contest runs until August 19, 2014, and offers $8,000 in prizes.

After the contest, these unique data sets will be made freely available to researchers worldwide by the NIH, University of Pennsylvania and Mayo Clinic at http://ieeg.org to advance epilepsy research and treatment. Join our international collaboration to cure epilepsy at http://ieeg.org and https://www.kaggle.com/c/seizure-detection.

Best,

The IEEG-Portal Team

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Funded by National Institutes of Health Grant NINDS-1U24 NS 63930-01A1
Sponsored by The American Epilepsy Society (AES)
Supported by Penn Medicine, Penn Engineering, Mayo Clinic Neurology,
and the Penn Center for Neuroengineering and Therapeutics