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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.
Rafeed Alkawadri, MD Associate Professor of Neurology University of Pittsburgh
Human Brain Mapping Program & Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) Laboratory
About Rafeed Alkawadri, MD
Rafeed Alkawadri is an Associate Professor of Neurology at the University of Pittsburgh [Pitt], University of Pittsburgh Medical Center [UPMC], and the Director of the Human Brain Mapping [HBM] Program. In partnership with Pitt and Carnegie Mellon colleagues, leveraging the computational infrastructure, he will investigate human brain networks using computational electrophysiology, having joined in 2018 via Yale scholar.
Dr. Rafeed Alkawadri previously practiced at Yale School of Medicine, specializing in epilepsy and neurophysiology. He has been the Director of the Human Brain Mapping Program and the Evoked Potentials Laboratory since 2013. He was appointed after finishing a two-year fellowship in epilepsy and clinical neurophysiology at the Cleveland Clinic. Dr. Rafeed Alkawadri completed his neurology residency at UTSW Medical Center in Dallas, Texas. He graduated from The University of Damascus, Faculty of Medicine, in 2005.
Dr. Rafeed Alkawadri focuses on electrophysiological and multimodal brain mapping studies. His work has been published in leading journals Nature, JAMA Network, and Annals of Neurology, among others. He's a popular speaker and has written chapters on epilepsy care and brain mapping. He's received many accolades.
Dr. Alkawadri employs EEG, intracranial EEG/ECoG, MEG, ECT, and fMRI. Themes of investigation encompass the (dys)functions of the Cingulate Gyrus, including epilepsy, Brain Resuscitation, the spatial and signal characteristics of high-frequency oscillations, passive AI-based mapping, single-pulse electrical cortical stimulation SPEPs, connectivity index, free-running ECoG, ictal Magnetoencephalography, and Brain-Computer-Interfaces (BCI).
Dr. Rafeed Alkawadri directs and moderates the Annual Course on Human Brain Mapping, as well as the Annual EEG Book Club for clinical trainees. The [HBM] course & fellowship attracted worldwide scholars, post-doctoral students, junior faculty, neuropsychologists, and EEG technologists. Fellows have won grants and other awards, published in notable journals, and are highly sought-after by top programs.
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He collaborates with many national and international researchers and scientists, e.g., Dennis D. Spencer, Paul C. Van Ness, Nicolas Gaspard, Hitten P. Zaveri, Hal Blumenfeld, and Nenad Sestan. Among many, many others.
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