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Mar 2024
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Early Identification of Candidates for E...

AMERICAN ACADEMY OF NEUROLOGY
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Dr. Halley Alexander talks about the use of machine learning models to identify candidates for resective epilepsy surgery earlier in the disease course.

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https://www.neurology.org/doi/10.1212/WNL.0000000000208048 

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