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<p><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">After much anticipation the <b>Melbourne-University AES-MathWorks-NIH Seizure Prediction Challenge</b> has launched on Kaggle.com!
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Enter for your chance to win part of the
<b>US$20,000</b> prize pool and test your data science skills against the one-of-a-kind long-term human intracranial EEG database from the world-first human clinical trial of the NeuroVista Seizure Advisory System that was co-ordinated by the University of
Melbourne. This device was implanted in the heads of epilepsy patients to record brain activity over a period of 6 months to 3 years. Typical recordings of intracranial EEG in humans only last up to two weeks and do not provide enough data to allow accurate
evaluation of seizure prediction algorithms because often only a handful of seizures can be collected over two weeks. The durations of data in the NeuroVista dataset overcome this problem. </font></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Analysis of the human NeuroVista dataset has indicated that seizure prediction in humans is in fact possible, however, improvements can still be achieved depending on the patient.
This contest seeks to find improved methods by contributing data from 3 patients whose seizures are difficult to predict.</font></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">In 2014, our contest partners from the Mayo Clinic and University of Pennsylvania ran a seizure prediction contest on Kaggle.com involving long-term data from dogs, that were
also implanted with the NeuroVista device, and short-term human data. The contest revealed several novel and existing approaches that performed well and now we want to know how well they can perform on long-term data from humans. Can you help us find out,
or can you come up with even better algorithms?</font></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Everything you need to get started is on the contest web page:</font></font></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><a href="https://www.kaggle.com/c/melbourne-university-seizure-prediction" target="_blank"><font color="#0563c1" size="3" face="Calibri">https://www.kaggle.com/c/melbourne-university-seizure-prediction</font></a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Be sure to get started soon as the
<b>contest ends on November 21</b> and the winners will be announced at the American Epilepsy Society Annual Meeting on December 5.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Good luck!</font></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">On behalf of the organising team</font></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 36pt"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">University of Melbourne: Levin Kuhlmann, Mark Cook, David Grayden, Dean Freestone, Philippa Karoly</font></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 36pt"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">University of Pennsylvania: Brian Litt</font></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 36pt"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Mayo Clinic: Greg Worrell, Ben Brinkmann</font></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 36pt"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Alliance for Epilepsy Research: Susan Arthurs</font></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">And our co-sponsors
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 36pt"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">American Epilepsy Society</font></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 36pt"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">MathWorks</font></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 36pt"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">National Institutes of Health</font></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><font size="3" face="Calibri">And Kaggle.com</font></p>
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