The research being conducted by Tamás Karácsony in the field of artificial intelligence applied to epilepsy diagnosis was recently featured in an article by Público.
As a researcher at INESC TEC and a CMU Portugal Affiliated Ph.D. student in Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP) Tamás has been developing innovative AI tools to support the detection and classification of epileptic seizures.
The method applied by INESC TEC researchers uses an infrared radar (to detect movement at night) and a high-resolution camera to capture 3D videos, ensuring better quality results. This non-invasive system allows for automatic diagnosis of movements. Though it seems to gather good results, more tests and more data are still needed to validate the work and transform it into a real aid to medical practice, with the goal of making diagnoses faster and more accurate, in healthcare systems.
In October, Tamás’ research was recognized with the “Innovation and Contribution to the field of AI” award at the GITEX GLOBAL Largest Tech & Startup Show in the World, in Dubai.
He is supervised by João Paulo Cunha, CMU Portugal Scientific Director, professor at FEUP and researcher at INESC TEC, and co-supervised by Fernando De la Torre, professor and researcher at CMU School of Computer Science.
Read the article from Público here (in Portuguese) .
