Developed by a team at Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI) and The Royal Children’s Hospital (RCH), the “AI epilepsy detective” can find lesions (focal cortical dysplasias) the size of a blueberry, in up to 94% of cases with the support of medical imaging.

MCRI’s Dr. Emma Macdonald-Laurs, an RCH neurologist who led the team that created the detector, said more accurate diagnosis of cortical dysplasia would lead to faster referrals for epilepsy surgery, fewer seizures and improved long-term developmental outcomes.