Application of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in pediatric epilepsy: a narrative review
Review Article

Application of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in pediatric epilepsy: a narrative review

Hunmin Kim1,2^, Hee Hwang1,2^

1Department of Pediatrics, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea; 2Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, Seoul National University, Jongno-gu, Seoul, Korea

Contributions: (I) Conception and design: Both authors; (II) Administrative support: None; (III) Provision of study materials or patients: H Kim; (IV) Collection and assembly of data: Both authors; (V) Data analysis and interpretation: Both authors; (VI) Manuscript writing: Both authors; (VII) Final approval of manuscript: Both authors.

^ORCID: Hunmin Kim, 0000-0001-6689-3495; Hee Hwang, 0000-0002-7964-1630.

Correspondence to: Hee Hwang, MD. Division of Pediatric Neurology, Department of Pediatrics, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, 166 Gumi-ro, Bundang-gu, Seongnam, 463-707 Korea. Email: neuroandy@snubh.org.

Objective: The purpose of this narrative review is to introduce artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to pediatricians in the field of epilepsy.

Background: There has been significant interest in AI and ML in the field of medicine. The number of AI research in the field of pediatrics is also increasing rapidly. AI research team often asks pediatricians to review and label the data for AI research and provide insights for planning the AI/ML algorithms. Ever-increasing medical data such as medical imaging data and digitalized physiologic monitoring data and advanced computing power enabled AI and ML research to increase rapidly. The chronic nature of epilepsy care is another reason AI/ML research is increasing using digitized big data such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and electroencephalography (EEG).

Methods: This review provides examples of AI/ML research in epilepsy, focusing on clinical implications. The purpose of AI/ML research in epilepsy encompasses increasing diagnostic accuracy and precision, detecting and predicting seizures, supporting treatment decisions, improving treatment outcomes, and predicting seizure and non-seizure outcomes. We will review various AI/ML research on automated EEG interpretation, seizure detection and forecasting.

Conclusions: Understanding the strength and limitations of AI/ML research will help pediatricians understand and contribute to AI/ML research of their field of expertise. We must find useful clinical implications and suggestions that affect our medical knowledge and change our clinical practice from the research as clinicians participate in AI/ML research.

Keywords: Artificial intelligence (AI); machine learning (ML); pediatric; epilepsy


Received: 08 March 2021; Accepted: 16 July 2021; Published: 28 August 2022.

doi: 10.21037/pm-21-26


Introduction

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a growing area of medical research, and the situation is the same with pediatric epilepsy (1,2). It has been actively applied to medical big data to aid various clinical practice aspects such as diagnosis, clinical treatment decision support, risk assessment, prognosis prediction, and even public health policy planning (3). Even though pediatricians are not experts in AI, it is helpful to know the current trend and recent progress made using AI in our clinical expertise. This review will present the AI application cases to pediatric epilepsy with particular emphasis on clinical significance and its practical implication rather than algorithm and methodology itself. We present the following article in accordance with the Narrative Review reporting checklist (available at https://pm.amegroups.com/article/view/10.21037/pm-21-26/rc).


Epilepsy

Epilepsy is one of the most common chronic neurological disorders in the pediatric population (4). Unlike most pediatric diseases are acute illnesses, epilepsy is a chronic condition that requires long-duration medical care and even life-long treatment. Pediatric Epileptologists should treat epilepsy in children and adolescents with care because these periods are critical to their cognitive development and educational achievements. It is well recognized that behavioral, cognitive, and psychiatric comorbidities are not uncommon in pediatric epilepsy, and they pose significant concern during their treatment (5). Epileptic seizures are recently classified as focal, generalized, and unknown (6). There are even more various epilepsy syndromes and different types of epilepsy and their etiologies are classified as structural, genetic, infectious, metabolic, immune, and unknown (7).

Seizures are highly detrimental in that they can cause fall, trauma, or even death. Seizures that do not stop spontaneously (status epilepticus) can lead to brain damage that can even cause permanent disability. Patients and their caregivers have a great fear of seizures because it is unpredictable. They are worried about the seizure attacks that occur abruptly. It is well recognized that there is a risk of sudden death in patients with epilepsy (SUDEP, sudden unexpected death of epilepsy patients) (8,9).

Epilepsy is not a single disease but a group of various entities that share the common feature of recurrent seizures. It is a very heterogeneous group of multiple diagnostic entities. The prognosis varies from one epilepsy to another in that there is self-limited epilepsy, whereas one-third or fourth of epilepsy patients experience medication refractoriness and uncontrolled daily seizure. The purpose of medical treatment of epilepsy is the prevention of seizures without significant medication adverse effects. Seizure freedom for at least 2–3 years is required for medication withdrawal, and some epilepsy patients require lifelong treatment. Monitoring medication adverse effects are crucial for long-term treatment.


AI

AI refers to any technic or program that mimics human intelligence or behavior. Machine learning is a subset of AI technology that utilizes learning from labeled or unlabeled data to build systems that have the function to learn and improve from experience automatically. Learning is the critical feature in machine learning (ML) when other AI uses specific programming to mimic human intelligence. When the algorithm is trained with the labeled dataset, it is called supervised learning. When it is trained with the data that is not labeled, it is called unsupervised learning. Deep learning is a subset of ML, which uses neural network models with many layers that resemble the human brain to generate an AI system (Figure 1).

Figure 1 Brief definition of artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and deep learning (DL).

The concept of AI was coined in the 1950s when people imagined if a machine could have intelligence (10). However, it took several decades for a computer system which had sufficient computing powers to support AI technology (11). Even after AI was utilized in engineering and other science fields, the application of AI in the medical field was slow due to a lack of sufficient amount of high-quality data for training in ML (12,13). With development of digital electronic health record, digitalized biological signal data such as electroencephalography and big data such as MRI, AI in medicine showed rapid growth and achievements (14).

To name some of the AI's strengths in the medical field, one is that AI or machines are free from fatigue. Unlike humans, they are not fatigued, and as long as they are correctly programmed, they are not prone to human errors. Computer science and hardware’s advancement made a tremendous jump in computing power, which has made AI algorithms handle enormous-sized big data rapidly. As long as the algorithm is correct, AI does not have a gray zone to call for a given classification task.


AI application in epilepsy

AI has been applied to nearly all aspects of medical practice, from diagnosis to outcome prediction. It is well known that AI/ML algorithms showed equal or better performance compared to human interpreters in specific imaging diagnoses (15-18). Natural language processing and text-mining is used and has shown promising result such as gene discovery (19). It has also been applied in predicting risks of a particular disease, treatment responses, and outcomes. With the recent development of wearable devices and other health-related tracking devices, there are increasing attempts to incorporated this digitized big data to improve the management of chronic diseases (20,21).

Like other medicine fields, AI/ML was applied to various aspects of epilepsy care from epilepsy diagnosis, classification using big data such as EEG, MRI, or even medical records (Table 1). Analyzing digitized EEG and MRI images with AI to classify certain condition is one area where AI research has yielded promising results. Since epilepsy is classified as lesional and nonlesional epilepsy, identifying a causative lesion is critical regarding the treatment response, prognosis, and even candidacy of surgery in medication refractoriness. Some researchers detected and characterized focal lesions using AI (22-24). Advancing from just detecting lesions, many researchers tried to look deeper and analyze further to reveal the difference between epilepsy patients and normal controls. They used functional MRI connectivity or diffusion tensor imaging with AI to classify between epilepsy or normal control, and whether the medication response will be good or bad (25-27). Medical records such as progress notes and EEG reports were analyzed with AI (28-30).

Table 1

Areas of epilepsy care and their examples where AI is applied

Epilepsy care Data used Examples
Diagnosis EEG Automated EEG analysis
Interictal epileptiform discharge detection
MRI Classifying MRI with epilepsy vs. without epilepsy
Epilepsy causative lesions detection
EHR Automatically analyze progress note or EEG report
Treatment EHR Algorithm suggesting antiseizure medication
MRI, EEG Epileptogenic zone detection
Seizure detection and prediction EEG Seizure detection and prediction using scalp EEG
Seizure detection and prediction using intracranial EEG
Other sensors Seizure detection and prediction using EMG, motion detector and other sensors
Outcome prediction EHR Overall epilepsy outcome prediction
MRI Seizure and non-seizure epilepsy outcome prediction

EEG, electroencephalogram; MRI, magnetic resonance imaging; EHR, electronic health record; EMG, electromyogram.

Since seizure control is the ultimate goal in epilepsy treatment, seizure detection is a crucial issue. Moreover, seizure prediction and forecasting are other promising fields that can directly help patients improve their quality of life. There are a large number of studies regarding seizure detection using EEG (31) and recent studies utilized videos and motion sensors to detect and classify seizures (32,33). These efforts were even applied to challenging fields such as neonatal seizure (34).

The application of AI to predict treatment response for treatment like antiseizure medication and epilepsy surgery is also a critical issue. Some studies tried to analyze various clinical features and phenotypes to predict treatment response (35). Others have tried to predict medication refractoriness even at the time of initial treatment (36). As well as treatment response prediction, many studies attempted to predict outcomes other than seizure control which are relevant to epilepsy patients. Such outcomes are cognitive functioning such as language dysfunction, whether patients are provided with adequate antiseizure medication, and emergency department visits during their treatment (37-39). Another area of interesting and clinically useful research is prediction surgical outcome. Epilepsy surgery is one of the last resorts for epilepsy patients with medication refractoriness, and it is a procedure with possible surgical complications and functional deficit. AI research has helped plan the surgery to accurately localize the resection zone and predict surgical outcome after surgery (40-43).


Interpretation of electroencephalogram (EEG)

Interpretation of EEG is very complicated. Various artifacts, features of unknown significance, benign variants, and delicate fluctuation are some of the issues making EEG interpretation such a technically challenging task. While the quantitative analysis was one methodology that enabled technical advancement in image processing (various medical images such as magnetic resonance image (MRI), simple radiographs, and endoscopy images), EEG was not the easily accessed clinical data for AI. Japanese researchers did pioneering work for more than thirty years to build a computer-assisted system to interpret adult EEG automatically (44-46). They made a system to analyze EEG to meet electroencephalographer's visual inspection and to detect artifacts, spikes automatically, and vigilance and attention level of individual subject for the final purpose to supplement visual inspection. We are also building an AI implement routine EEG analysis software as a South Korean Government-funded project. This software's primary purpose is to automatically detect analysis epochs, perform quantitative analysis to aid visual interpretation, and finally build a structured database of quantitative features of EEG (47).

Awake sleep cycle staging is a specific field where AI/ML has showed promising results. When we interpret EEG and polysomnography, sleep-wake cycle staging is an initial and essential step. There have been many attempts to classify wake-sleep staging with EEG to yield good accuracy (48-50). We developed a multidomain hybrid neural network and classified pediatric EEG solely using EEG alone to yield similar accuracy than previous studies with adult EEG. As clinicians, we took a further step to test this algorithm for various parameters. We aimed to determine whether there are differences in performance depending on epoch length (10, 20, and 30 seconds) and the number of channels (whole 19 channels vs. the reduced number that is the same as in PSG). The best result came with 30 seconds with the entire 19channel, but the difference in reducing the number and shortening the epoch length was less than 3% (51). It is an example where clinicians working together with AI researchers can test hypotheses based on clinical experience and yield study outcomes with practical clinical implications.

Spike detection is another field where AI is used in epilepsy diagnosis. There are many different kinds of interictal epileptiform discharges, such as spike, spike and wave, sharp wave, polyspike and waves. Their morphology differs regarding amplitude, orientation, location, and occurrence. Researchers used to count these spikes from paper EEG, and it was very tedious and labor-intensive work. Even though this was done manually in the research setting, it is seldom possible in clinical settings. Some studies tried to detect and classify these automatically discharges to help improve EEG interpretation and analysis from the scalp and intracranial EEGs (52-56).


Seizure detection and forecasting using EEG

Epilepsy patients undergo long-term EEG monitoring for multiple purposes such as pattern evaluation and presurgical workup. An increasing number of continuous monitoring in intensive care units are performed for status epilepticus management and other neurocritical care. Seizure detection is an essential step in interpreting these study results and timely management to improve clinical outcomes. Moreover, data from devices such as response neurostimulator (RNS) and other wearable devices are promising materials for training in AI/ML to detect and predict seizures. Successful forecasting eventually can lower anticipation for patients or their caregivers and even improve seizure control.

Since 1970s effort to detect seizure took place and it has developed to the stage that use AI algorithms to detect spontaneous seizure attacks (57-59). Seizure detection in AI means classifying the specific epoch of EEG as a seizure or non-seizure epoch. EEG epochs are labeled as seizure or non-seizure, and these EEGs are used for training and validation. Whereas in seizure prediction or forecasting, epochs are classified as interictal (between seizure attacks) and preictal (before the seizure for a certain amount of time). AI algorithms are trained to classify and detect the preictal epoch. In addition to accuracy, the false positive rate is an essential measure of performance. In case of high false positive alarms, the patient will have to anticipate seizure unnecessarily, and lowering this false alarm rate is relevant. Many studies in seizure prediction and the sensitivity and specificity have increased remarkably for few decades (60-63).

We developed deep convolutional neural network-based interictal/preictal EEG prediction and applied to 9 pediatric patients with surgically proven focal cortical dysplasia type II. The best accuracy was 5 minutes as preictal period, all intracranial channels for analysis, and 512 Hz sampling rate for EEG acquisition. When we change the preictal period from 2 hours before seizure to 1 minute, accuracy increased to 5 minutes and showed a small decline in 1 minute. These findings tell us that the best functioning was when we set the preictal period to 5 minutes before the seizure started. When we changed the analyzing electrode from whole intracranial to most relevant four electrodes, accuracy declined, but the amount was 2%. Increasing the sampling rate from 128 to 512 Hz, the increase of accuracy was trivial. We found that we could reduce the number of electrodes and sampling rate with a slight decline in performance. The decreasing number of electrodes helps reduce surgical risk, and sampling rate reduction is related to computational efficiency (64).


Limitation and suggestions

AI is a growing field of science that evidently is changing the landscape of medicine and pediatric epilepsy. However, there are limitations to this cutting-edge technology. Especially in ML, it is totally dependent on the quality of training data. It is even true that inadequate quality labeling or wrongly labeled training datasets will end up with poorly functioning or wrongfully directing algorithms trained by supervised learning. Labeling is very labor-intensive, and it requires effort to have a high-quality training dataset.

Above mentioned limitations are the reasons why pediatricians need to be aware of AI technology. To improve the AI/ML algorithm’s quality, practicing clinicians should correctly label the data with their expertise. The algorithm must be designed carefully with the insight of clinicians and their practical needs. AI algorithm and advancement of computer technology is not threatening human doctors. They need human doctors' help and understanding to improve the algorithm and further functioning. Eventually, AI technology advancement and the wide application of AI in medicine will improve medical care quality.


Acknowledgments

Funding: None.


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