TABLE 1.

Recommendations for future research.

1. Epilepsy surgery services should collaborate to create high‐quality data sets for research purposes

2. Data collection, annotation, and categorization should be standardized across surgery centers

3. Variables included as predictors in a clinical decision‐making tool should be limited to those that

(i) are routinely collected for all epilepsy surgery patients

(ii) can be obtained preoperatively, and

(iii) are significantly predictive of outcome

4. Data should be harmonized across surgery centers to tackle variability in data acquisition (e.g., variability induced by differences in MRI scanners and protocols)

5. Researchers should openly share their code on platforms (such as GitHub; https://github.com) to maximize transparency, support reproducibility, and enable external validation. In cases where code cannot be shared, researchers should share their models in a way that they can be validated by external centers