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Suitable for people with either biology background or computer science and mathematical background

WHAT IS EPILEPSY?

Synchronization of brain regions that spreads to other regions.

Need not be motor lobe synchronization, which manifests in seizure.

Can be induced even by alcohol withdrawal in alcoholics.

Seizures induce occurrence of further seizures, so if epilepsy and epileptic seizures can be stopped, in addition to helping the patient at that moment, one is preventing further progress of the disease.

CAN EPILEPSY BE PREDICTED?

Yes

People are already doing it.

Research material on it (from June 10th to June 20th)

WHY SHOULD WE JUMP IN THE RACE?

Much success only with temporal lobe epilepsy.

People married to a technique.

WHAT WOULD WE DO DIFFERENT?

Set logic gate of OR for various time series analysis tools, develop new hybrid approaches.

Push the envelope of detection further back in time (yes, back can be good )

Explore kinds of epilepsies that have been untouched.

TIMELINE

Research material on previous epilepsy prediction (from June 10th to June 20th)

Explore epilepsy databases (I know some of you have already done that but for others June 20th to June 25th)

Learn specific time series analysis tools (June 10th to July 10th). You can learn as many tools as you wish, say ARCH, GARCH, ARIMA, Wavelet analysis, soft computing approaches such as evolutionary algorithms and ANNs but you have to be really good at at least one of them. Based on technique we divide teams.

Complete analysis by July 31st

TIMELINE (CONTD.)

Converge different analysis approaches. August 1st to 15th

Make an online tool. August 1st to August 15th (in parallel)

Write paper by end of August

CAN EPILEPSY PREDICTION TEAM WORK ON OTHER THINGS?

If you are a person looking at time-series analysis, you can work on other applications of time-series as well.