Epilepsy Visualisation Tool

Team Members

• Esther Lim - Twitter
• Aleks Bulovic
• Miguel Sanchez
• Vincent Guerandel

The Problem

Epilepsy is a disorder of brain functions that takes the form of recurring seizures. 3-4% of the Australian population will be diagnosed with epilepsy. There are a range of seizure types that people can experience, a variety of seizure triggers, a wide range of antiepileptic drugs and therapeutic doses, and over the course of a person’s epilepsy story the impact of epilepsy on a their life will vary. Patient history information is usually stored in narrative text making longitudinal analysis difficult. The tool that we would like to developed will be used by clinicians to visualise patient data, and find correlations between seizure frequency, medication, severity of impact on life, and any potential surgery.

The Solution

A visualisation of a patient's epileptic history.

Application/Relevance

Allowing clinicians to view data on a patient's epilepsy history, to help them to make informed decisions where a patient's medical history is concerned.

Datasets

Epilepsy Dataset

Links

• Link to a github repository

Tech stack

• Twitter Bootstrap
• MSSqL Access database has to be installed to view the graph.
• Visual Studio Ultimate 2013
• Flot.js, JavaScript plotting library for jQuery
• Jasny Bootstrap, JavaScript for file upload components
• C# 5.0
• Team Foundation Server, collaboration platform

Tradeoffs/analysis

Communication, might have to use a different coding language in future. Team foundation server caused a huge amount of issues and time was wasted.

Future functionality

Work further on the project by implementing the upload function so that data can be uploaded to be displayed for clinicians in future.