NCT04439656

Detecting Absence Seizures Using Eye Tracking

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 150 (actual)
• Sponsor: Rachel Kuperman · Industry
• Sex: All
• Age: 4 Years – 100 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The goal of this study is to develop a comfortable system that uses a wearable eye-tracker similar to eyeglasses to assist people with epilepsy in counting and measuring the severity of seizures. Participants will wear an eye-tracker during a routine EEG.

Detailed description

Seizures can be difficult to detect outside of the hospital even with careful observation by a caregiver. EEG is the best method that we have to detect seizures- but it is uncomfortable for long term use outside of the hospital. The goal of this study is to develop a comfortable system that uses a wearable eye-tracker similar to eyeglasses to assist people with epilepsy in counting and measuring the severity of seizures. People participating in this study will have a routine EEG performed while an eye tracker measures eye movements. After the EEG is complete the researchers will compare the eye movements to the EEG to develop a software program that can detect seizures from eye movements.

Conditions

• Epilepsy, Generalized
• Absence Epilepsy
• Absence Seizures
• Seizures
• Seizure Disorder

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DIAGNOSTIC_TEST	Eye movement analysis	Eye movements will be analyzed to identify if seizures are present and compared to the EEG read

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-07-15
• Primary completion: 2022-06-28
• Completion: 2022-06-28
• First posted: 2020-06-19
• Last updated: 2022-07-05

Locations

5 sites across 1 country: United States

Regulatory

• FDA-regulated device study