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Written By Torie Robinson

Dr. Konrad Wagstyl

About Konrad

Konrad Wagstyl is a Senior Lecturer in Biomedical Computing at King’s College London (KCL) and an Honorary Associate Professor at University College London’s (UCL) Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health. He also holds a Wellcome Senior Research Fellowship at both institutions. Konrad leads the IMAGINE Lab (Imaging, Machine learning And Genetics In Neurodevelopmental Epilepsies), which focuses on developing advanced imaging and machine learning techniques to better understand and treat neurodevelopmental disorders, particularly epilepsy. Together with Dr. Sophie Adler, he co-leads the Multicentre Epilepsy Lesion Detection project (MELD) and international consortium of epilepsy centres working to improve MRI diagnosis of epilepsy lesions. Together they won the 2025 International Michael Prize for their contributions to Neuroimaging of Epilepsy.

Episode

MRIs Miss Brain Lesions Causing Epilepsy - AI Can Find Them - Dr. Konrad Wagstyl

19 Mar 2026

In this episode we discuss:

  • Why some epilepsy lesions are missed on MRI scans

  • Detecting lesions and focal cortical dysplasia using AI

  • Identifying hippocampal sclerosis with automated MRI tools

  • How lesion detection changes the epilepsy surgery pathway

  • The MELD project and global MRI datasets

  • Improving diagnosis in MRI-negative epilepsy


Hear what routine MRIs are missing! 👇

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Areas of focus

  • Biomedical computing

  • Neuroimaging in epilepsy

  • Machine learning in brain imaging

  • MRI detection of epilepsy lesions

  • Neurodevelopmental epilepsies

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