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Miao Y, Iimura Y, Sugano H, Fukumori K, Tanaka T. Seizure onset zone identification using phase-amplitude coupling and multiple machine learning approaches for interictal electrocorticogram. Cogn Neurodyn 2023; 17:1591-1607. [PMID: 37969944 PMCID: PMC10640557 DOI: 10.1007/s11571-022-09915-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/13/2022] [Revised: 10/26/2022] [Accepted: 11/17/2022] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Automatic seizure onset zone (SOZ) localization using interictal electrocorticogram (ECoG) improves the diagnosis and treatment of patients with medically refractory epilepsy. This study aimed to investigate the characteristics of phase-amplitude coupling (PAC) extracted from interictal ECoG and the feasibility of PAC serving as a promising biomarker for SOZ identification. We employed the mean vector length modulation index approach on the 20-s ECoG window to calculate PAC features between low-frequency rhythms (0.5-24 Hz) and high frequency oscillations (HFOs) (80-560 Hz). We used statistical measures to test the significant difference in PAC between the SOZ and non-seizure onset zone (NSOZ). To overcome the drawback of handcraft feature engineering, we established novel machine learning models to learn automatically the characteristics of the obtained PAC features and classify them to identify the SOZ. Besides, to handle imbalanced dataset classification, we introduced novel feature-wise/class-wise re-weighting strategies in conjunction with classifiers. In addition, we proposed a time-series nest cross-validation to provide more accurate and unbiased evaluations for this model. Seven patients with focal cortical dysplasia were included in this study. The experiment results not only showed that a significant coupling at band pairs of slow waves and HFOs exists in the SOZ when compared with the NSOZ, but also indicated the effectiveness of the PAC features and the proposed models in achieving better classification performance .
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- Yao Miao
- Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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- Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Tokyo, Japan
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- Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Tokyo, Japan
- Department of Neurosurgery, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
- RIKEN Center for Brain Science, Saitama, Japan
- RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligent Project, Tokyo, Japan
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Gagliano L, Chang A, Shokooh LA, Toffa DH, Lesage F, Sawan M, Nguyen DK, Assi EB. Cross-bispectrum connectivity of intracranial EEG: A novel approach to seizure onset zone localization. ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY SOCIETY. IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY SOCIETY. ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2023; 2023:1-4. [PMID: 38082787 DOI: 10.1109/embc40787.2023.10340885] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2023]
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Connectivity analyses of intracranial electroencephalography (iEEG) could guide surgical planning for epilepsy surgery by improving the delineation of the seizure onset zone. Traditional approaches fail to quantify important interactions between frequency components. To assess if effective connectivity based on cross-bispectrum -a measure of nonlinear multivariate cross-frequency coupling- can quantitatively identify generators of seizure activity, cross-bispectrum connectivity between channels was computed from iEEG recordings of 5 patients (34 seizures) with good postsurgical outcome. Personalized thresholds of 50% and 80% of the maximum coupling values were used to identify generating electrode channels. In all patients, outflow coupling between α (8-15 Hz) and β (16-31 Hz) frequencies identified at least one electrode inside the resected seizure onset zone. With the 50% and 80% thresholds respectively, an average of 5 (44.7%; specificity = 82.6%) and 2 (22.5%; specificity = 99.0%) resected electrodes were correctly identified. Results show promise for the automatic identification of the seizure onset zone based on cross-bispectrum connectivity analysis.
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Repeated hippocampal seizures lead to brain-wide reorganization of circuits and seizure propagation pathways. Neuron 2021; 110:221-236.e4. [PMID: 34706219 PMCID: PMC10402913 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2021.10.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/18/2020] [Revised: 05/18/2021] [Accepted: 10/05/2021] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Repeated seizure activity can lead to long-term changes in seizure dynamics and behavior. However, resulting changes in brain-wide dynamics remain poorly understood. This is due partly to technical challenges in precise seizure control and in vivo whole-brain mapping of circuit dynamics. Here, we developed an optogenetic kindling model through repeated stimulation of ventral hippocampal CaMKII neurons in adult rats. We then combined fMRI with electrophysiology to track brain-wide circuit dynamics resulting from non-afterdischarge (AD)-generating stimulations and individual convulsive seizures. Kindling induced widespread increases in non-AD-generating stimulation response and ipsilateral functional connectivity and elevated anxiety. Individual seizures in kindled animals showed more significant increases in brain-wide activity and bilateral functional connectivity. Onset time quantification provided evidence for kindled seizure propagation from the ipsilateral to the contralateral hemisphere. Furthermore, a core of slow-migrating hippocampal activity was identified in both non-kindled and kindled seizures, revealing a novel mechanism of seizure sustainment and propagation.
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Fernandez-Corazza M, Feng R, Ma C, Hu J, Pan L, Luu P, Tucker D. Source localization of epileptic spikes using Multiple Sparse Priors. Clin Neurophysiol 2020; 132:586-597. [PMID: 33477100 PMCID: PMC7971150 DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2020.10.030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/14/2020] [Revised: 09/10/2020] [Accepted: 10/21/2020] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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OBJECTIVE To evaluate epileptic source estimation using multiple sparse priors (MSP) inverse method and high-resolution, individual electrical head models. METHODS Accurate source localization is dependent on accurate electrical head models and appropriate inverse solvers. Using high-resolution, individual electrical head models in fifteen epilepsy patients, with surgical resection and clinical outcome as criteria for accuracy, performance of MSP method was compared against standardized low-resolution brain electromagnetic tomography (sLORETA) and coherent maximum entropy on the mean (cMEM) methods. RESULTS The MSP method performed similarly to the sLORETA method and slightly better than the cMEM method in terms of success rate. The MSP and cMEM methods were more focal than sLORETA with the advantage of not requiring an arbitrary selection of a hyperparameter or thresholding of reconstructed current density values to determine focus. MSP and cMEM methods were better than sLORETA in terms of spatial dispersion. CONCLUSIONS Results suggest that the three methods are complementary and could be used together. In practice, the MSP method will be easier to use and interpret compared to sLORETA, and slightly more accurate and faster than the cMEM method. SIGNIFICANCE Source localization of interictal spikes from dense-array electroencephalography data has been shown to be a reliable marker of epileptic foci and useful for pre-surgical planning. The advantages of MSP make it a useful complement to other inverse solvers in clinical practice.
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- Mariano Fernandez-Corazza
- LEICI Instituto de Investigaciones en Electrónica, Control y Procesamiento de Señales, Universidad Nacional de La Plata - CONICET, Argentina.
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Huashan Hospital of Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Huashan Hospital of Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Huashan Hospital of Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Huashan Hospital of Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- Brain Electrophysiology Laboratory (BEL) Company, Eugene, OR, USA; NeuroInformatics Center, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA
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- Brain Electrophysiology Laboratory (BEL) Company, Eugene, OR, USA; NeuroInformatics Center, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA
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Xue J, Gu X, Ni T. Auto-Weighted Multi-View Discriminative Metric Learning Method With Fisher Discriminative and Global Structure Constraints for Epilepsy EEG Signal Classification. Front Neurosci 2020; 14:586149. [PMID: 33132835 PMCID: PMC7550683 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2020.586149] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/22/2020] [Accepted: 08/24/2020] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Metric learning is a class of efficient algorithms for EEG signal classification problem. Usually, metric learning method deals with EEG signals in the single view space. To exploit the diversity and complementariness of different feature representations, a new auto-weighted multi-view discriminative metric learning method with Fisher discriminative and global structure constraints for epilepsy EEG signal classification called AMDML is proposed to promote the performance of EEG signal classification. On the one hand, AMDML exploits the multiple features of different views in the scheme of the multi-view feature representation. On the other hand, considering both the Fisher discriminative constraint and global structure constraint, AMDML learns the discriminative metric space, in which the intraclass EEG signals are compact and the interclass EEG signals are separable as much as possible. For better adjusting the weights of constraints and views, instead of manually adjusting, a closed form solution is proposed, which obtain the best values when achieving the optimal model. Experimental results on Bonn EEG dataset show AMDML achieves the satisfactory results.
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- Jing Xue
- Department of Nephrology, The Affiliated Wuxi People's Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Wuxi, China
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- School of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, Changzhou University, Changzhou, China
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- School of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, Changzhou University, Changzhou, China
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Ni T, Gu X, Zhang C. An Intelligence EEG Signal Recognition Method via Noise Insensitive TSK Fuzzy System Based on Interclass Competitive Learning. Front Neurosci 2020; 14:837. [PMID: 33013284 PMCID: PMC7499470 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2020.00837] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/21/2020] [Accepted: 07/20/2020] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Epilepsy is an abnormal function disease of movement, consciousness, and nerve caused by abnormal discharge of brain neurons in the brain. EEG is currently a very important tool in the process of epilepsy research. In this paper, a novel noise-insensitive Takagi-Sugeno-Kang (TSK) fuzzy system based on interclass competitive learning is proposed for EEG signal recognition. First, a possibilistic clustering in Bayesian framework with interclass competitive learning called PCB-ICL is presented to determine antecedent parameters of fuzzy rules. Inherited by the possibilistic c-means clustering, PCB-ICL is noise insensitive. PCB-ICL learns cluster centers of different classes in a competitive relationship. The obtained clustering centers are attracted by the samples of the same class and also excluded by the samples of other classes and pushed away from the heterogeneous data. PCB-ICL uses the Metropolis-Hastings method to obtain the optimal clustering results in an alternating iterative strategy. Thus, the learned antecedent parameters have high interpretability. To further promote the noise insensitivity of rules, the asymmetric expectile term and Ho-Kashyap procedure are adopted to learn the consequent parameters of rules. Based on the above ideas, a TSK fuzzy system is proposed and is called PCB-ICL-TSK. Comprehensive experiments on real-world EEG data reveal that the proposed fuzzy system achieves the robust and effective performance for EEG signal recognition.
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- School of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, Changzhou University, Changzhou, China
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van Mierlo P, Vorderwülbecke BJ, Staljanssens W, Seeck M, Vulliémoz S. Ictal EEG source localization in focal epilepsy: Review and future perspectives. Clin Neurophysiol 2020; 131:2600-2616. [PMID: 32927216 DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2020.08.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/28/2020] [Revised: 07/12/2020] [Accepted: 08/04/2020] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Electroencephalographic (EEG) source imaging localizes the generators of neural activity in the brain. During presurgical epilepsy evaluation, EEG source imaging of interictal epileptiform discharges is an established tool to estimate the irritative zone. However, the origin of interictal activity can be partly or fully discordant with the origin of seizures. Therefore, source imaging based on ictal EEG data to determine the seizure onset zone can provide precious clinical information. In this descriptive review, we address the importance of localizing the seizure onset zone based on noninvasive EEG recordings as a complementary analysis that might reduce the burden of the presurgical evaluation. We identify three major challenges (low signal-to-noise ratio of the ictal EEG data, spread of ictal activity in the brain, and validation of the developed methods) and discuss practical solutions. We provide an extensive overview of the existing clinical studies to illustrate the potential clinical utility of EEG-based localization of the seizure onset zone. Finally, we conclude with future perspectives and the needs for translating ictal EEG source imaging into clinical practice.
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- Pieter van Mierlo
- Medical Image and Signal Processing Group, Department of Electronics and Information Systems, Ghent University, Corneel Heymanslaan 10, 9000 Ghent, Belgium.
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- EEG and Epilepsy Unit, University Hospitals and Faculty of Medicine Geneva, Rue Gabrielle-Perret-Gentil 4, 1205 Geneva, Switzerland; Department of Neurology, Epilepsy-Center Berlin-Brandenburg, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Charitéplatz 1, 10117 Berlin, Germany.
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- Medical Image and Signal Processing Group, Department of Electronics and Information Systems, Ghent University, Corneel Heymanslaan 10, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
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- EEG and Epilepsy Unit, University Hospitals and Faculty of Medicine Geneva, Rue Gabrielle-Perret-Gentil 4, 1205 Geneva, Switzerland.
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- EEG and Epilepsy Unit, University Hospitals and Faculty of Medicine Geneva, Rue Gabrielle-Perret-Gentil 4, 1205 Geneva, Switzerland.
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Influence of Patient-Specific Head Modeling on EEG Source Imaging. COMPUTATIONAL AND MATHEMATICAL METHODS IN MEDICINE 2020; 2020:5076865. [PMID: 32328152 PMCID: PMC7157795 DOI: 10.1155/2020/5076865] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/03/2019] [Revised: 02/11/2020] [Accepted: 02/21/2020] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Electromagnetic source imaging (ESI) techniques have become one of the most common alternatives for understanding cognitive processes in the human brain and for guiding possible therapies for neurological diseases. However, ESI accuracy strongly depends on the forward model capabilities to accurately describe the subject's head anatomy from the available structural data. Attempting to improve the ESI performance, we enhance the brain structure model within the individual-defined forward problem formulation, combining the head geometry complexity of the modeled tissue compartments and the prior knowledge of the brain tissue morphology. We validate the proposed methodology using 25 subjects, from which a set of magnetic-resonance imaging scans is acquired, extracting the anatomical priors and an electroencephalography signal set needed for validating the ESI scenarios. Obtained results confirm that incorporating patient-specific head models enhances the performed accuracy and improves the localization of focal and deep sources.
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van Mierlo P, Höller Y, Focke NK, Vulliemoz S. Network Perspectives on Epilepsy Using EEG/MEG Source Connectivity. Front Neurol 2019; 10:721. [PMID: 31379703 PMCID: PMC6651209 DOI: 10.3389/fneur.2019.00721] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/29/2019] [Accepted: 06/18/2019] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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The evolution of EEG/MEG source connectivity is both, a promising, and controversial advance in the characterization of epileptic brain activity. In this narrative review we elucidate the potential of this technology to provide an intuitive view of the epileptic network at its origin, the different brain regions involved in the epilepsy, without the limitation of electrodes at the scalp level. Several studies have confirmed the added value of using source connectivity to localize the seizure onset zone and irritative zone or to quantify the propagation of epileptic activity over time. It has been shown in pilot studies that source connectivity has the potential to obtain prognostic correlates, to assist in the diagnosis of the epilepsy type even in the absence of visually noticeable epileptic activity in the EEG/MEG, and to predict treatment outcome. Nevertheless, prospective validation studies in large and heterogeneous patient cohorts are still lacking and are needed to bring these techniques into clinical use. Moreover, the methodological approach is challenging, with several poorly examined parameters that most likely impact the resulting network patterns. These fundamental challenges affect all potential applications of EEG/MEG source connectivity analysis, be it in a resting, spiking, or ictal state, and also its application to cognitive activation of the eloquent area in presurgical evaluation. However, such method can allow unique insights into physiological and pathological brain functions and have great potential in (clinical) neuroscience.
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- Pieter van Mierlo
- Medical Image and Signal Processing Group, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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- Faculty of Psychology, University of Akureyri, Akureyri, Iceland
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- Clinical Neurophysiology, University Medicine Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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- EEG and Epilepsy Unit, University Hospital of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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Bou Assi E, Rihana S, Nguyen DK, Sawan M. Effective connectivity analysis of iEEG and accurate localization of the epileptogenic focus at the onset of operculo-insular seizures. Epilepsy Res 2019; 152:42-51. [DOI: 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2019.02.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/28/2018] [Revised: 12/23/2018] [Accepted: 02/21/2019] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Martinez-Vargas JD, Duque-Muñoz L, Vargas-Bonilla F, Lopez JD, Castellanos-Dominguez G. Enhanced Data Covariance Estimation Using Weighted Combination of Multiple Gaussian Kernels for Improved M/EEG Source Localization. Int J Neural Syst 2019; 29:1950001. [PMID: 30859856 DOI: 10.1142/s0129065719500011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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In the recent past, estimating brain activity with magneto/electroencephalography (M/EEG) has been increasingly employed as a noninvasive technique for understanding the brain functions and neural dynamics. However, one of the main open problems when dealing with M/EEG data is its non-Gaussian and nonstationary structure. In this paper, we introduce a methodology for enhancing the data covariance estimation using a weighted combination of multiple Gaussian kernels, termed WM-MK, that relies on the Kullback-Leibler divergence for associating each kernel weight to its relevance. From the obtained results of validation on nonstationary and non-Gaussian brain activity (simulated and real-world EEG data), WM-MK proves that the accuracy of the source estimation raises by more effectively exploiting the measured nonlinear structures with high time and space complexity.
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- J D Martinez-Vargas
- 1Instituto Tecnológico Metropolitano, Medellín, Colombia.,4Signal Processing and Recognition Group, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Manizales, Colombia
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- 2SISTEMIC, Engineering Faculty, Universidad de Antioquia UDEA. AE & CC, Instituto Tecnológico Metropolitano, Medellín, Colombia
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- 3SISTEMIC, Engineering Faculty, Universidad de Antioquia UDEA, Medellín, Colombia
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- 3SISTEMIC, Engineering Faculty, Universidad de Antioquia UDEA, Medellín, Colombia
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- 4Signal Processing and Recognition Group, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Manizales, Colombia
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Kouti M, Ansari-Asl K, Namjoo E. Epileptic source connectivity analysis based on estimating of dynamic time series of regions of interest. NETWORK (BRISTOL, ENGLAND) 2019; 30:1-30. [PMID: 31240983 DOI: 10.1080/0954898x.2019.1634290] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/23/2018] [Revised: 04/30/2019] [Accepted: 06/17/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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We propose a new source connectivity method by focusing on estimating time courses of the regions of interest (ROIs). To this aim, it is necessary to consider the strong inherent non-stationary behavior of neural activity. We develop an iterative dynamic approach to extract a single time course for each ROI encoding the temporal non-stationary features. The proposed approach explicitly includes dynamic constraints by taking into account the evolution of the sources activities for further dynamic connectivity analysis. We simulated an epileptic network with a non-stationary structure; accordingly, EEG source reconstruction using LORETA is performed. Using the reconstructed sources, the spatially compact ROIs are selected. Then, a single time course encoding the temporal non-stationarity is extracted for each ROI. An adaptive directed transfer function (ADTF) is applied to measure the information flow of underlying brain networks. Obtained results demonstrate that the contributed approach is more efficient to estimate the ROI time series and ROI to ROI information flow in comparison with existing methods. Our work is validated in three drug-resistance epilepsy patients. The proposed ROI time series estimation directly affects the quality of connectivity analysis, leading to the best possible seizure onset zone (SOZ) localization verified by electrocorticography and post-operational results.
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- Mayadeh Kouti
- Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran
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- Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran
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- Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran
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Muñoz-Gutiérrez PA, Giraldo E, Bueno-López M, Molinas M. Localization of Active Brain Sources From EEG Signals Using Empirical Mode Decomposition: A Comparative Study. Front Integr Neurosci 2018; 12:55. [PMID: 30450041 PMCID: PMC6224487 DOI: 10.3389/fnint.2018.00055] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/21/2018] [Accepted: 10/16/2018] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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The localization of active brain sources from Electroencephalogram (EEG) is a useful method in clinical applications, such as the study of localized epilepsy, evoked-related-potentials, and attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder. The distributed-source model is a common method to estimate neural activity in the brain. The location and amplitude of each active source are estimated by solving the inverse problem by regularization or using Bayesian methods with spatio-temporal constraints. Frequency and spatio-temporal constraints improve the quality of the reconstructed neural activity. However, separation into frequency bands is beneficial when the relevant information is in specific sub-bands. We improved frequency-band identification and preserved good temporal resolution using EEG pre-processing techniques with good frequency band separation and temporal resolution properties. The identified frequency bands were included as constraints in the solution of the inverse problem by decomposing the EEG signals into frequency bands through various methods that offer good frequency and temporal resolution, such as empirical mode decomposition (EMD) and wavelet transform (WT). We present a comparative analysis of the accuracy of brain-source reconstruction using these techniques. The accuracy of the spatial reconstruction was assessed using the Wasserstein metric for real and simulated signals. We approached the mode-mixing problem, inherent to EMD, by exploring three variants of EMD: masking EMD, Ensemble-EMD (EEMD), and multivariate EMD (MEMD). The results of the spatio-temporal brain source reconstruction using these techniques show that masking EMD and MEMD can largely mitigate the mode-mixing problem and achieve a good spatio-temporal reconstruction of the active sources. Masking EMD and EEMD achieved better reconstruction than standard EMD, Multiple Sparse Priors, or wavelet packet decomposition when EMD was used as a pre-processing tool for the spatial reconstruction (averaged over time) of the brain sources. The spatial resolution obtained using all three EMD variants was substantially better than the use of EMD alone, as the mode-mixing problem was mitigated, particularly with masking EMD and EEMD. These findings encourage further exploration into the use of EMD-based pre-processing, the mode-mixing problem, and its impact on the accuracy of brain source activity reconstruction.
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- Pablo Andrés Muñoz-Gutiérrez
- Electronic Instrumentation Technology, Universidad del Quindío, Armenia, Colombia.,Department of Electrical Engineering, Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira, Pereira, Colombia
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- Department of Electrical Engineering, Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira, Pereira, Colombia
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- Department of Engineering Cybernetics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
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Rojas GM, Alvarez C, Montoya CE, de la Iglesia-Vayá M, Cisternas JE, Gálvez M. Study of Resting-State Functional Connectivity Networks Using EEG Electrodes Position As Seed. Front Neurosci 2018; 12:235. [PMID: 29740268 PMCID: PMC5928390 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2018.00235] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/15/2017] [Accepted: 03/26/2018] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Electroencephalography (EEG) is the standard diagnosis method for a wide variety of diseases such as epilepsy, sleep disorders, encephalopathies, and coma, among others. Resting-state functional magnetic resonance (rs-fMRI) is currently a technique used in research in both healthy individuals as well as patients. EEG and fMRI are procedures used to obtain direct and indirect measurements of brain neural activity: EEG measures the electrical activity of the brain using electrodes placed on the scalp, and fMRI detects the changes in blood oxygenation that occur in response to neural activity. EEG has a high temporal resolution and low spatial resolution, while fMRI has high spatial resolution and low temporal resolution. Thus, the combination of EEG with rs-fMRI using different methods could be very useful for research and clinical applications. In this article, we describe and show the results of a new methodology for processing rs-fMRI using seeds positioned according to the 10-10 EEG standard. We analyze the functional connectivity and adjacency matrices obtained using 65 seeds based on 10-10 EEG scheme and 21 seeds based on 10-20 EEG. Connectivity networks are created using each 10-20 EEG seeds and are analyzed by comparisons to the seven networks that have been found in recent studies. The proposed method captures high correlation between contralateral seeds, ipsilateral and contralateral occipital seeds, and some in the frontal lobe.
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- Gonzalo M Rojas
- Laboratory for Advanced Medical Image Processing, Department of Radiology, Clínica las Condes, Santiago, Chile.,Medical Bio-Modeling Laboratory, Department of Radiology, Clínica las Condes, Santiago, Chile.,Department of Radiology, Clínica las Condes, Santiago, Chile.,Advanced Epilepsy Center, Clínica las Condes, Santiago, Chile
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- Advanced Epilepsy Center, Clínica las Condes, Santiago, Chile.,Department of Paediatric Neurology, Clínica las Condes, Santiago, Chile
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- Medical Bio-Modeling Laboratory, Department of Radiology, Clínica las Condes, Santiago, Chile
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- Joint Unit FISABIO & Prince Felipe Research Center (CIPF), Valencia, Spain.,Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Salud Mental (CIBERSAM-G23), Madrid, Spain.,Hospital of Sagunto, Valencia, Spain
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- School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Universidad de los Andes, Santiago, Chile
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- Medical Bio-Modeling Laboratory, Department of Radiology, Clínica las Condes, Santiago, Chile.,Department of Radiology, Clínica las Condes, Santiago, Chile.,Advanced Epilepsy Center, Clínica las Condes, Santiago, Chile
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Martinez-Vargas JD, Nieto-Mora DA, Muñoz-Gutiérrez PA, Cespedes-Villar YR, Giraldo E, Castellanos-Dominguez G. Assessment of Source Connectivity for Emotional States Discrimination. Brain Inform 2018. [DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-05587-5_7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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