邀請Westlake University Prof. Mohamad Sawan來訪進行演講及學術交流



演講時間:2019.10.29 星期二

演講地點:國立交通大學光復校區 工程四館知新聽108室

Title of Talk:
Detect and Predict Epileptic Seizures: A Multidisciplinary Approach

Speaker:
Prof. Mohamad Sawan
Chair Professor
Westlake University
Leave of Absence from Polytechnique Montreal, Canada

Abstract of Talk:
Epilepsy is one of main neurological disorders. Less than 3% of refractory to any medication patients can benefit from surgery. Also, presurgical monitoring to localize the seizure focus is a challenging step. Wearable and implantable brain-machine interfaces (BMIs) are introduced to face the localization of the seizure zone, its onset detection, and abortion of seizures before their emergence. On the other hand, on line prediction of seizures at least a half hour before its appearance is major challenges due to the complexity of brain behavior. This talk includes the description of a wearable helmet based on a fNIRS platform which is composed of an array of system-in-package based optodes proposed to measure hemoglobin variation in deep cortical levels. If a seizure is located but surgery cannot be accomplished, a multichannel mixed-signal detector and stimulator can be used to onset abort the seizures. Most important, prediction based on deep-learning algorithms is creating hope and significant expectation, that allow to prevent seizure while before its onset zone. Several research groups are conducting deep learning implementations to validate predicting algorithms using regular and intracortical EEGs to identify generators of seizure activity.



圖為Prof.Mohamad Sawan演講合影。