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Huang H, Ojeda Valencia G, Gregg NM, Osman GM, Montoya MN, Worrell GA, Miller KJ, Hermes D. CARLA: Adjusted common average referencing for cortico-cortical evoked potential data. J Neurosci Methods 2024; 407:110153. [PMID: 38710234 PMCID: PMC11149384 DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2024.110153] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/03/2023] [Revised: 02/22/2024] [Accepted: 04/27/2024] [Indexed: 05/08/2024]
Abstract
Human brain connectivity can be mapped by single pulse electrical stimulation during intracranial EEG measurements. The raw cortico-cortical evoked potentials (CCEP) are often contaminated by noise. Common average referencing (CAR) removes common noise and preserves response shapes but can introduce bias from responsive channels. We address this issue with an adjusted, adaptive CAR algorithm termed "CAR by Least Anticorrelation (CARLA)". CARLA was tested on simulated CCEP data and real CCEP data collected from four human participants. In CARLA, the channels are ordered by increasing mean cross-trial covariance, and iteratively added to the common average until anticorrelation between any single channel and all re-referenced channels reaches a minimum, as a measure of shared noise. We simulated CCEP data with true responses in 0-45 of 50 total channels. We quantified CARLA's error and found that it erroneously included 0 (median) truly responsive channels in the common average with ≤42 responsive channels, and erroneously excluded ≤2.5 (median) unresponsive channels at all responsiveness levels. On real CCEP data, signal quality was quantified with the mean R2 between all pairs of channels, which represents inter-channel dependency and is low for well-referenced data. CARLA re-referencing produced significantly lower mean R2 than standard CAR, CAR using a fixed bottom quartile of channels by covariance, and no re-referencing. CARLA minimizes bias in re-referenced CCEP data by adaptively selecting the optimal subset of non-responsive channels. It showed high specificity and sensitivity on simulated CCEP data and lowered inter-channel dependency compared to CAR on real CCEP data.
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Affiliation(s)
- Harvey Huang
- Mayo Clinic Medical Scientist Training Program, Rochester, MN, USA.
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- Department of Neurology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA; Division of Child Neurology, Department of Pediatrics, McGovern Medical School at UTHealth, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biomedical Engineering, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biomedical Engineering, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA; Department of Neurology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biomedical Engineering, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA; Department of Neurologic Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biomedical Engineering, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA; Department of Neurology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA; Department of Radiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55901, USA.
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Parvizi J, Lyu D, Stieger J, Lusk Z, Buch V. Causal Cortical and Thalamic Connections in the Human Brain. RESEARCH SQUARE 2024:rs.3.rs-4366486. [PMID: 38853954 PMCID: PMC11160924 DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-4366486/v1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2024]
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The brain's functional architecture is intricately shaped by causal connections between its cortical and subcortical structures. Here, we studied 27 participants with 4864 electrodes implanted across the anterior, mediodorsal, and pulvinar thalamic regions, and the cortex. Using data from electrical stimulation procedures and a data-driven approach informed by neurophysiological standards, we dissociated three unique spectral patterns generated by the perturbation of a given brain area. Among these, a novel waveform emerged, marked by delayed-onset slow oscillations in both ipsilateral and contralateral cortices following thalamic stimulations, suggesting a mechanism by which a thalamic site can influence bilateral cortical activity. Moreover, cortical stimulations evoked earlier signals in the thalamus than in other connected cortical areas suggesting that the thalamus receives a copy of signals before they are exchanged across the cortex. Our causal connectivity data can be used to inform biologically-inspired computational models of the functional architecture of the brain.
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van den Boom MA, Gregg NM, Valencia GO, Lundstrom BN, Miller KJ, van Blooijs D, Huiskamp GJ, Leijten FS, Worrell GA, Hermes D. ER-detect: a pipeline for robust detection of early evoked responses in BIDS-iEEG electrical stimulation data. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2024:2024.01.09.574915. [PMID: 38260687 PMCID: PMC10802406 DOI: 10.1101/2024.01.09.574915] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2024]
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Human brain connectivity can be measured in different ways. Intracranial EEG (iEEG) measurements during single pulse electrical stimulation provide a unique way to assess the spread of electrical information with millisecond precision. To provide a robust workflow to process these cortico-cortical evoked potential (CCEP) data and detect early evoked responses in a fully automated and reproducible fashion, we developed Early Response (ER)-detect. ER-detect is an open-source Python package and Docker application to preprocess BIDS structured iEEG data and detect early evoked CCEP responses. ER-detect can use three response detection methods, which were validated against 14-manually annotated CCEP datasets from two different sites by four independent raters. Results showed that ER-detect's automated detection performed on par with the inter-rater reliability (Cohen's Kappa of ~0.6). Moreover, ER-detect was optimized for processing large CCEP datasets, to be used in conjunction with other connectomic investigations. ER-detect provides a highly efficient standardized workflow such that iEEG-BIDS data can be processed in a consistent manner and enhance the reproducibility of CCEP based connectivity results.
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Affiliation(s)
- Max A. van den Boom
- Department of Physiology and Biomedical Engineering, Mayo Clinic; Rochester, MN, USA
- Department of Neurosurgery, Mayo Clinic; Rochester, MN, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Mayo Clinic; Rochester, MN, USA
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- Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, UMC Utrecht Brain Center, University Medical Center Utrecht; Utrecht, NL
- Stichting Epilepsie Instellingen Nederland (SEIN); Zwolle, The Netherlands
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- Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, UMC Utrecht Brain Center, University Medical Center Utrecht; Utrecht, NL
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- Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, UMC Utrecht Brain Center, University Medical Center Utrecht; Utrecht, NL
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- Department of Physiology and Biomedical Engineering, Mayo Clinic; Rochester, MN, USA
- Department of Neurology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN; USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biomedical Engineering, Mayo Clinic; Rochester, MN, USA
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