Hi There is one more interesting development in MIT Media labs. I thought some of you might find it interesting. What is really interesting is that they are not taking EEG data as input, rather what all are the physiological effects of the changed brain waves. That looks very clever to me.
http://www.medgadget.com/2014/11/embrace-watch-like-device-to-help-track-epileptic-seizures-video.html https://www.empatica.com/science#electro-dermal-activity *Regards,* *Anubhav Chaturvedi* *Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani* KK Birla Goa Campus On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 4:41 PM, Fergal Byrne <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Andrew, > > Yes, the leaderboard is done on a proportion of the entire test set, but > the competition uses the whole set. This is, I presume, to prevent people > probing the scores to guess the answers (which would itself be an > interesting challenge!). > > I'd be interested in getting back to that - perhaps we could do it over > the [insert holiday] break? > > Regards, > > Fergal Byrne > > On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 12:27 AM, Andrew Currie <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> Thanks for the find, Fergal. A few interesting points: >> >> 1. The winners in this article only came second on the kaggle leaderboard >> >> https://www.kaggle.com/c/seizure-prediction/leaderboard >> >> Perhaps the top team did not share their code? >> >> 2. The winners describe their methodology as a weighted combination of >> three models (Generalized Linear Model, Random Forest and Support Vector >> Machines). Each model used a different method of data reduction such as >> hand-picked FFT power bands, standard brain wave FFT bands and feature >> detection. They tried many combinations to see what gave the best kaggle >> score. >> >> >> https://github.com/drewabbot/kaggle-seizure-prediction/blob/master/report.md >> >> 3. This is very different to the pure NuPIC attempt where we tried to >> learn from clean time histories and look for anomaly likelihood in each >> test signal. Basically we ran out of time having started late and never got >> to process all 5 dogs and 2 human patients to even see if this approach got >> close. Based on the differences in time history "noise" in the dog and >> patient data I saw, more data reduction work is needed. Perhaps a >> spectrogram time history is what we could feed NuPIC? >> >> If anyone is interested in progressing this we can still submit results >> to see if we do better than the "winners". Let me know if you are >> interested in helping on this work. >> >> Andrew Currie >> Sydney >> >> >> >> On 12/12/14 00:09, Fergal Byrne wrote: >> >> >> Nice article on the competition (which a NuPIC team participated in): >> >> http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/12/10/369654830/a-crowd-of-scientists-finds-a-better-way-to-predict-epileptic-seizures >> >> >> -- >> >> 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 >
