Professor Helen Cross, consultant epileptologist at Great Ormond Street Hospital, and director of the UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, said: “Many of the children I see have experienced years of seizures and investigations before we find a lesion.
Dr Luca Palma, of Bambino Gesu Children’s Hospital in Italy, who was a co-author of the research, said: “Meld Graph identified a subtle lesion missed by many radiologists in a 12-year-old boy who had daily seizures and had tried nine anti-seizure medications with no improvement to his condition.
The software, known as Meld Graph, was developed by scientists at King’s College London and University College London (UCL) to be used in instances when abnormalities are missed by radiologists.
Dr Mathilde Ripart, of UCL, said: “One of the highlights for me is hearing from doctors around the world, including the UK, Chile, India and France, have been able to use our tools to help their own patients.”.
Artificial intelligence (AI) could help detect abnormalities in the brain linked to epilepsy and lead to an earlier diagnosis, researchers say.
