SCORE cons prop

SUMMARY : The EEG signal has a high complexity, and the process of extracting clinically relevant features is achieved by visual analysis of the recording. The inter-observer agreement in EEG interpretation is only moderate. This is partly due to the method of reporting the findings in free-text format. The purpose of our endeavour is to create a computer-based system for EEG description, where the physicians would construct the reports by choosing from pre-defined elements for each relevant EEG feature, as well as the clinical phenomena-for long term video-EEG monitoring. The working group produced a consensus proposal, which is hereby submitted to a pan-European review, organised by the European Chapter of the IFCN. aspects of the neonatal EEGs are scored: alertness, temporal organisation and spatial organisation. Significance: SCORE will provide quality control for the EEG assessment and reporting, it will help incorporating the results of computer-assisted analysis into the report, it will make possible the build-up of a multinational database, and it will help in training young neurophysiologists.