News

25 Apr 2026
ICU SLEEP is published on bdsp.io

25 Apr 2026
Dementia detection from brain activity during sleep - data and code is published on bdsp.io

22 Apr 2026
Facility-Measured Sleep Electroencephalographic Microstructures in Long COVID. is published in Sleep

22 Apr 2026
A randomized controlled educational pilot trial of interictal epileptiform discharge identification for neurology residents - Data and Code is published on bdsp.io

21 Apr 2026
Electroencephalogram Monitoring in Critical Care: Multicenter Analysis of Timing, Duration, and Readmissions. is published in Crit Care Explor

18 Apr 2026
On-demand EEG education through competition: learning to identify IEDs is published on bdsp.io

17 Apr 2026
Measuring Expertise in Identifying Interictal Epileptiform Discharges is published on bdsp.io

9 Apr 2026
Brain Health from Sleep EEG: A Multicohort, Deep Learning Biomarker for Cognition, Disease, and Mortality. is published in NEJM AI

3 Apr 2026
EEG in patients with altered mental status in the emergency department. is published in Int J Emerg Med

28 Mar 2026
Multicenter evaluation of the Waveband System for automated sleep assessment in patients with insomnia symptoms. is published in Sleep

16 Dec 2025
Alexandra’s paper on estimation of PD frequency is published

8 Dec 2025
Cat’s NLP paper on coma after cardiac arrest is published in Resuscitation

1 Dec 2025
The ELUCID study protocol paper is published! studying late-onset epilesy

1 Nov 2025
Analysis of inter-rater reliability of sleep scoring in the ISR dataset

21 Oct 2025
Lidia’s paper on Inferring mRS from claims data using NLP is published in JAHA

14 Oct 2025
A better benchmark for seizure forecasting

1 Oct 2025
Paper with Chol Shin from KoGES on OSA and cerebral microbleeds

16 Sep 2025
The BCH Sleep Database manuscript is published in SLEEP

9 Sep 2025
The Brain Imaging and Neurophysiology Database BIND is published is published on bdsp.io

4 Sep 2025
The EEG Talk experience: Lessons in e-teaching EEG

29 Aug 2025
A Machine Learning Approach for Identifying People With Neuroinfectious Diseases in Electronic Health Records: Algorithm Development and Validation is published in JMIR

12 Aug 2025
Automated analysis of the AASM Inter-Scorer Reliability gold standard polysomnogram dataset is published in JCSM

7 Aug 2025
Health-Oriented Sleep States: Making Sleep States Reflect Health Conditions is published in SLEEP

6 Aug 2025
Evaluating crowdsourcing for ICU EEG annotation: A comparison with expert performance

6 Aug 2025
The BCH Sleep Database is published on BDSP

5 Jul 2025
Controversies: Periodic discharges in critically ill patients - urgent treatment is essential

2 Jul 2025
Inter-Rater Reliability of EEG-Based Encephalopathy Grading (EGGS IRR 1.0) is published in JCN!

6 Jun 2025
SpikeNet2.0 is published in NEJM AI. Congrats to JJ, Jun, Daniel, Moritz, ChenXi et al!

6 Jun 2025
Jun Li’s and Shenda Hong’s ECG Foundation Model using 10M ECGs is published in NEJM AI

5 May 2025
Alek and Brandon in JAMA Neurology on the risks of general AI

5 May 2025
Moritz’s CYCLOPS is published in Epilepsia!

25 Apr 2025
Erik-Jan’s Ordinal Sleep Depth paper is published in SLEEP!

11 Apr 2025
Shenda’s Continuous Sleep Depth model is published in NPJ Digital Medicine!

8 Mar 2025
Fabio’s and Doyle’s Decision Hygiene published in Clinical Neurophysiology!

21 Nov 2024
BDSP is officially an NIH-recognized data sharing platform

13 Nov 2024
New dataset: Sleep Electroencaphalography-Based Brain Age Index

7 Nov 2024
ECG dataset update: Harvard Electroencephalography Database v 2.0

31 Oct 2024
Marta and Sahar’s paper on extracting mRS from notes is published in JAHA

25 Oct 2024
How to tell if GPDs are `ictal’: Commentary from Marcus Ng et al

22 Oct 2024
Dataset publication: Assessing Risk of Health Outcomes From Brain Activity in Sleep

10 Sep 2024
Kayley’s paper on EEG spectrogram patterns is out!

10 Sep 2024
Marta’s paper on extracting seizure control metrics from notes is published

31 Aug 2024
Wolfgang’s and Sameneh’s paper is published in SLEEP

7 Aug 2024
Chris, Sam, Shashank, and JJ’s paper is out on estimating PD frequency

26 Jul 2024
Wendong’s and Lidia’s paper published about NLP identification of fall-related injuries in EHR notes

24 Jul 2024
Shawn’s and Eddy’s paper on burst similarity ~ MRI in postanoxic coma

9 Jul 2024
AWS article about BDSP!

12 Jun 2024
Harsh’s and Sahar’s paper published in ACTN: Sample Size Calculations for Neuro-ICU Clinical Trials: Yikes.

23 May 2024
NEJM AI paper on Interpretable ML for critical care EEG patterns

9 May 2024
James’ paper published in JNCN: GPDs in Catatonia

26 Apr 2024
Fabio’s and JJ’s pilot RCT on teaching IED recognition to neurology residents

8 Apr 2024
Kaggle IIIC Classification Competition winners!

17 Feb 2024
Daniel’s paper Minimum clinical utility standards for wearable seizure detectors: A simulation study published in Epilepsia

2 Feb 2024
Ruoqi and Wolfgang’s paper about Sleep~Cognition~MRI is out in SLEEP: paper, supplement, editorial.

8 Jan 2024
Kaggle Competition launched!: Harmful Brain Activity Classification. $50K in prizes

8 Dec 2023
Haoqi’s paper Assessing Risk of Health Outcomes From Brain Activity in Sleep is out! See also this nice editorial.

7 Dec 2023
New dataset and code!: Real-Time Segmentation of Burst Suppression Patterns in Critical Care EEG Monitoring is published on BDSP

29 Nov 2023
New dataset release!: The Human Burst Suppression Electroencephalogram of Deep Hypothermia is published on BDSP

13 Nov 2023
E-CAM-S is published on BDSP!

6 Oct 2023
Kalyan and Jay’s paper showing automated spindle detection is better than sigma power is out!

9 Sep 2023
The Harvard-Emory ECG Database is published on BDSP

29 Aug 2023
Eddy and Weilong’s epic paper about how the EEG evolves following cardiac arrest is published in Neurology.

28 Aug 2023
Eddy and the Physionet Challenge team published a description of the I-CARE dataset

6 Aug 2023
Christine’s work on physiological grading of ICANS neurotoxicity for patients receiving CAR-T therapy is out!

1 Aug 2023
Fabio, Jaden & JJ’s paper on learning EEG through competition is out!

21 Jul 2023
Neurology Today did a piece on our recent paper in Lancet Digital Health

15 Jul 2023
Noor’s paper, Decoding information about cognitive health from the brainwaves of sleep is out!

15 Jun 2023
The Harvard Electroencephalography Database is published on BDSP!

6 Jun 2023
Harsh’s and Haoqi’s paper with Cynthia Rundin and Alex Volfovsky is published in Lancet Digital Health

23 May 2023
The first installment of the Human Sleep Project is published on bdsp.io

5 May 2023
SPaRCNet repository published on bdsp.io!

5 May 2023
Patrick and Sahar’s work relating epileptiform activity in toxic metabolic encephalopathy to neurologic outcomes is published.

1 May 2023
ML contest launched!. Compete with other teams to develop neural networks that classify patterns of harmful brain activity. Top prize $10K!

11 Mar 2023
JJ and Wendong’s companion papers on expert reliability and automated detection of seizures and IIIC patterns are out in Neurology, with an accompanying editorial.

1 Mar 2023
Brandon gave the Harvard Longwood Neurology Grand Rounds - Geschwind Lecture. The talk starts at 00:16:15.

27 Feb 2023
Wolfgang’s paper on sleep staging in the ICU using heart rate and breathing signals is out!

27 Feb 2023
Daniel, Haoqi and Wolfgang’s SSAML (Sample Size Analysis for Machine Learning validation studies) is in print!

10 Feb 2023
The 2023 Physionet Challenge is launched! Compete to develop the most accurate algorithm to predict neurologic recovery for patients with coma following cardiac arrest.

2 Feb 2023
Juan and Haoqi’s paper Intraoperative electroencephalographic marker of preoperative frailty is published in JCA

19 Jan 2023
Haoqi’s paper is published in Neurobiology of Aging: The Sleep and Wake Electroencephalogram over the Lifespan

24 Dec 2022
Jason and Seun’s MINDDS trial results are published in EClinicalMedicine: Nighttime dexmedetomidine for delirium prevention in non-mechanically ventilated patients after cardiac surgery (MINDDS): A single-centre, parallel-arm, randomised, placebo-controlled superiority trial

22 Dec 2022
Jin Jing’s (JJ’s) paper is published in Neurology: Interrater Reliability of Expert Electroencephalographers Identifying Seizures and Rhythmic and Periodic Patterns in Electroencephalograms.

30 Nov 2022
Elissa, Haoqi, and Alice’s paper is published in Sleep: Dementia Detection from Brain Activity During Sleep

28 Nov 2022
Chaoqi’s paper on Augmenting Tensor Decomposition by Self Supervision is published in NeurIPS: ATD: Augmenting CP Tensor Decomposition by Self Supervision. Code is here.

19 Nov 2022
Daniel’s paper is published in Epilepsia: Flexible realistic simulation of seizure occurrence recapitulating statistical properties of seizure diaries

17 Nov 2022
Fabio and JJ’s paper is published in Clinical Neurophysiology: A quantitative approach to evaluating interictal epileptiform discharges based on interpretable quantitative criteria. Code is here.

10 Nov 2022
Yalda and Christine’s paper about predicting the timecourse of neurotoxicity after CAR-T therapy is published in the Journal of Immunotherapy and Cancer Forecasting immune effector cell-associated neurotoxicity syndrome after chimeric antigen receptor t-cell therapy

9 Nov 2022
Medical students beat EEG experts at recognizing IIIC patterns in EEGs!

1 Nov 2022
Jiangling’s paper is published in the Journal of Neurophysiology: A mechanistic model of calcium homeostasis leading to occurrence and propagation of secondary brain injury

14 Oct 2022
Jenn’s paper is published in JNNP: Quantitative epileptiform burden and electroencephalography background features predict post-traumatic epilepsy

1 Oct 2022
Danny & Christine’s paper is published in Nature Scientific Reports: EEG-based grading of immune effector cell-associated neurotoxicity syndrome

1 Oct 2022
Fabio & JJ’s paper is published in Neurophysiologie Clinique: EEG reading with or without clinical information - a real-world practice study

26 Sep 2022
New paper with our collaborators Cynthia Rudin and Alex Volfovsky: Effects of Epileptiform Activity on Discharge Outcome in Critically Ill Patients