INTUITION: a data platform to integrate human epilepsy clinical care and support for discovery

Abstract

To make appropriate clinical decisions, clinicians consider many types of data from multiple sources to arrive at a diagnosis and plan. However, the current health systems have siloed data, making it challenging to develop information platforms that integrate this process into a single place for comprehensive clinical evaluation and research. INTUITION is a human brain integrative data system that facilitates multimodal data integration, unified storage, cohort selection, and analysis of multidisciplinary datasets. In this article, we describe the use of INTUITION to include electronic health records together with co-registered neuroimaging and EEG from patients who undergo invasive brain surgery for epilepsy. In addition to providing clinically useful visualizations and analytics to help guide surgical planning, INTUITION also links a bank of human brain epileptic tissues from specific brain locations to quantitative EEG, imaging, histology, and omics studies in a unique, completely integrated informatics platform. Having a clinically useful platform for integrating multimodal datasets can not only aid in clinical management decisions but also in creating a unique resource for research and discovery when linked to spatially mapped tissue samples.