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For diagnosis and treatment, accurate counts of seizures are crucial. The gold standard to determine seizure type and count constitutes in-hospital monitoring by video and electroencephalography (EEG). However, this monitoring is resource intensive and costly, and only available in specialized medical facilities with limited capacity, often causing several months wait times, and for highest quality recordings often requires inpatient admission. In epilepsy outpatient monitoring, however, objective methods for seizure logging are missing or not being employed broadly.