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Featured editorial
Beyond Accuracy: What Clinical AI in Neurology Must Get Right
Artificial intelligence can help neurology detect patterns, forecast risk, and personalize care—but benchmark accuracy is not the same as clinical usefulness. The 2025 Frontiers in Neurology editorial by Alkawadri and colleagues examines what responsible translation requires: representative data, imbalance-aware evaluation, attention to rare high-impact events, continual validation, and collaboration between clinicians and AI.
The editorial introduces a collection spanning seizure detection and forecasting, neurodegenerative disease, rehabilitation, imaging, vascular neurology, and neurological deterioration. The next volume is now moving forward, with a continued emphasis on rigorous work that can survive the distance from model development to patient care.
Prof. Alkawadri
Human Brain Mapping Program
Prof. Rafeed Alkawadri, MD
After completing a two-year epilepsy fellowship at Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Dr. Alkawadri spent six years on the faculty at Yale University (2012–2018), where he directed the Human Brain Mapping and Evoked Potential Programs. His earlier training included neurology residency at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas and an MD from the University of Damascus Faculty of Medicine. He currently leads the Human Brain Mapping and Brain–Computer Interface Laboratory at the University of Pittsburgh and UPMC.
Human Brain Mapping is the through-line of his work: resolving the brain at the scale of milliseconds, translating electrophysiology into maps of cognition and disease, and building clinically meaningful paths toward brain–computer interfaces.
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The program combines EEG, intracranial EEG/ECoG, MEG, brain stimulation, and multimodal imaging to study the cingulate cortex, epileptic networks, high-frequency oscillations, passive functional mapping, single-pulse evoked potentials, connectivity, and brain–computer interfaces. Research, patient-centered translation, and international training are treated as one continuum.
Work from the program and its collaborations has appeared in Nature, JAMA Network, Annals of Neurology, JNNP, and other leading venues. Its course, workshop, and fellowship bring clinicians, engineers, scientists, and trainees together around rigorous team science.
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