Hi Sergey, what's your github handle? On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 5:16 AM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Fergal, pleas add me to competition team please. > Best regards, Sergey. > On 23 Oct 2014 18:08, "Fergal Byrne" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Guys, >> >> Thanks for posting that Matt, it was really informative, and thanks to Dr >> Pantera for his kindness and patience with us! >> >> I've set up a NuPIC team for the second Kaggle competition, and invited >> some of the people from the weekend. Anubhav has joined and is transferring >> over his scripts today. >> >> If you'd like to join, please email me at this address with your Kaggle >> email and github handle (I have a private repo set up again). If Nicolas is >> agreeable, we could start submitting based on his work in the next day or >> two.. >> >> Regards, >> >> Fergal Byrne >> >> On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 6:42 AM, Anubhav Chaturvedi < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi >>> >>> Its great to see that NuPIC community is now involved actively in >>> pursuing seizure detection and there is sufficient interest. Thank you Matt >>> for organizing this talk in the Hackathon and hope you all found it >>> intriguing too. >>> >>> I have been studying more on the subject and have also made submission >>> trying out different techniques. So far I have reached a score of 0.7 but >>> traditional approaches don't seem to be helping me anymore. Let me know if >>> someone would like to discus more on this. >>> >>> I loved the talk and here are a few things that I found particularly >>> interesting. >>> >>> It is known that artifacts like muscle or eye movement have been known >>> to mess up the EEG recording and has been a problem with BCI as well. The >>> fact that 80% of EEG recordings of epilepsy patients is normal was new. I >>> did not know that and it is interesting to think how we can overcome this >>> constraint. >>> >>> Another thing was the mention of Deep Brain Simulators(DBS). These are >>> electrodes that are implanted to overcome seizure by providing electrical >>> impulses. Now when I read about them earlier, there was a skepticism >>> surrounding their efficiency. Sure they have been shown to be helpful but >>> to what extent, it cannot be determined. This has mainly been because of >>> poor seizure detectors. The problem is if you provide the impulse and you >>> claim that the seizure has stopped because of it, you need to be 100% sure >>> in the first step itself that a seizure was about to occur. And since the >>> seizure did not occur, you cannot be sure if it was a false positive or if >>> it was because of DBS. >>> >>> One more thing that I have noticed is that neurologists mainly observer >>> scalp EEG signals unlike the intracranial signals provided in the >>> competition. Physicians and surgeon, I have observed, have developed an >>> intuitive understanding of when seizure has occurred or maybe is about to >>> occur. This is what they have learned from their years of experience and >>> the surrounding data like ECG, physical condition, etc. are also helpful. >>> Because of this they find it very difficult to explain if you ask them just >>> on the basis of EEG hoe to detect seizures. >>> Also intracranial is only recorded when the patient is undergoing >>> surgery and they already have spit open his brain. This has been a bottle >>> neck because there is only a small duration of recording you can make in >>> the first place and even fewer duration of seizure clips occur. This is >>> evident in the competition data. >>> >>> *Regards,* >>> *Anubhav Chaturvedi* >>> >>> *Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani* >>> KK Birla Goa Campus >>> >>> On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 9:44 AM, Matthew Taylor <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Hideaki, >>>> >>>> You'll probably really enjoy one of the hack demos I'll be publishing >>>> soon. I won't spoil the surprise, but it involves EEG mind control. ;) >>>> --------- >>>> Matt Taylor >>>> OS Community Flag-Bearer >>>> Numenta >>>> >>>> >>>> On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 8:39 PM, Hideaki Suzuki <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>> > Hi Matt, >>>> > >>>> > Thank you for sharing the interesting video!! >>>> > >>>> > I also watched the hackathon raw, and I was very impressed that many >>>> people >>>> > were now interested in reading EEG by HTM. (in addition to those fun >>>> staff >>>> > like MindCraft ;-) >>>> > >>>> > I recently read the below article and would like to share. This is >>>> also a >>>> > good short article about EEG(actually ECG) and remote-controlling a >>>> robot >>>> > limb (IEEE spectrum), using the data collected from seizure patients. >>>> > >>>> > >>>> http://online.qmags.com/IEEESM12819043?sessionID=BC9E010ABEF488AB56FC61EE2&cid=1010491&eid=19043#pg39&mode2 >>>> > >>>> > Regards, >>>> > Hideaki Suzuki. >>>> >>>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> >> Fergal Byrne, Brenter IT >> >> http://inbits.com - Better Living through Thoughtful Technology >> http://ie.linkedin.com/in/fergbyrne/ - https://github.com/fergalbyrne >> >> Founder of Clortex: HTM in Clojure - >> https://github.com/nupic-community/clortex >> >> Author, Real Machine Intelligence with Clortex and NuPIC >> Read for free or buy the book at https://leanpub.com/realsmartmachines >> >> Speaking on Clortex and HTM/CLA at euroClojure Krakow, June 2014: >> http://euroclojure.com/2014/ >> and at LambdaJam Chicago, July 2014: http://www.lambdajam.com >> >> e:[email protected] t:+353 83 4214179 >> Join the quest for Machine Intelligence at http://numenta.org >> Formerly of Adnet [email protected] http://www.adnet.ie >> > -- Fergal Byrne, Brenter IT http://inbits.com - Better Living through Thoughtful Technology http://ie.linkedin.com/in/fergbyrne/ - https://github.com/fergalbyrne Founder of Clortex: HTM in Clojure - https://github.com/nupic-community/clortex Author, Real Machine Intelligence with Clortex and NuPIC Read for free or buy the book at https://leanpub.com/realsmartmachines Speaking on Clortex and HTM/CLA at euroClojure Krakow, June 2014: http://euroclojure.com/2014/ and at LambdaJam Chicago, July 2014: http://www.lambdajam.com e:[email protected] t:+353 83 4214179 Join the quest for Machine Intelligence at http://numenta.org Formerly of Adnet [email protected] http://www.adnet.ie
