{"paper":{"title":"Clinical Utility and Feasibility of Smartphone-based EEG in Kenya: A Multicenter Observational Study","license":"http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","headline":"Smartphone-based EEG enables large-scale brain recordings by non-specialists in Kenya.","cross_cats":["cs.CY"],"primary_cat":"eess.SP","authors_text":"Anca Alina Arbune, Anton Mosquera Storgaard, Dylan Rice, Farrah J. Mateen, George Wambugu, Magnus Guldberg Pedersen, Melita Cacic Hribljan, Nomin Enkhtsetseg, Nshimiyimana Jules Fidele, Sandor Beniczky, Sidsel Armand Larsen, William Lehn-Schi{\\o}ler","submitted_at":"2026-05-04T09:13:37Z","abstract_excerpt":"Purpose: Access to electroencephalography (EEG) remains limited across low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) due to cost, infrastructure requirements, and a shortage of trained staff. This study evaluated the feasibility and clinical utility of a smartphone-based EEG system in a real-world setting.\n  Methods: We conducted a multicenter observational study (November 2023 to April 2026) across 29 clinical sites in Kenya. A smartphone-based 27-lead EEG system enabled trained healthcare workers to acquire standardized recordings with remote expert interpretation.\n  Results: 3,036 EEG sessions w"},"claims":{"count":4,"items":[{"kind":"strongest_claim","text":"Large-scale, point-of-care EEG acquisition by non-specialist operators in a resource-limited setting is feasible.","source":"verdict.strongest_claim","status":"machine_extracted","claim_id":"C1","attestation":"unclaimed"},{"kind":"weakest_assumption","text":"That smartphone-based EEG recordings yield clinically valid and comparable diagnostic information to standard hospital EEG systems, without direct head-to-head validation or outcome data in this study.","source":"verdict.weakest_assumption","status":"machine_extracted","claim_id":"C2","attestation":"unclaimed"},{"kind":"one_line_summary","text":"A large observational study shows smartphone-based EEG is feasible for point-of-care use in Kenya, with 96% of 3,036 recordings interpretable and 30% abnormal.","source":"verdict.one_line_summary","status":"machine_extracted","claim_id":"C3","attestation":"unclaimed"},{"kind":"headline","text":"Smartphone-based EEG enables large-scale brain recordings by non-specialists in Kenya.","source":"verdict.pith_extraction.headline","status":"machine_extracted","claim_id":"C4","attestation":"unclaimed"}],"snapshot_sha256":"0479061174f8aa68d8c46bb762eb065b0132bde4b6eebc92f33c0beae79d56ab"},"source":{"id":"2605.08157","kind":"arxiv","version":2},"verdict":{"id":"324a192d-7d5a-4e9c-9017-3de5fc3dac98","model_set":{"reader":"grok-4.3"},"created_at":"2026-05-12T02:36:09.324346Z","strongest_claim":"Large-scale, point-of-care EEG acquisition by non-specialist operators in a resource-limited setting is feasible.","one_line_summary":"A large observational study shows smartphone-based EEG is feasible for point-of-care use in Kenya, with 96% of 3,036 recordings interpretable and 30% abnormal.","pipeline_version":"pith-pipeline@v0.9.0","weakest_assumption":"That smartphone-based EEG recordings yield clinically valid and comparable diagnostic information to standard hospital EEG systems, without direct head-to-head validation or outcome data in this study.","pith_extraction_headline":"Smartphone-based EEG enables large-scale brain recordings by non-specialists in Kenya."},"integrity":{"clean":true,"summary":{"advisory":0,"critical":0,"by_detector":{},"informational":0},"endpoint":"/pith/2605.08157/integrity.json","findings":[],"available":true,"detectors_run":[{"name":"doi_compliance","ran_at":"2026-05-19T16:27:29.518796Z","status":"completed","version":"1.0.0","findings_count":0}],"snapshot_sha256":"6097555a955ae11a55af8957bf582819855b5d5f6fc7db0b9aacee3228cafca1"},"references":{"count":0,"sample":[],"resolved_work":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57","internal_anchors":0},"formal_canon":{"evidence_count":1,"snapshot_sha256":"9e9b0e1393021a40c437719e94da521d10cc7a0db1e40c178f9a828a868e5f38"},"author_claims":{"count":0,"strong_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"builder_version":"pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1"}