Local Multimodal Serial Analysis for Fusing EEG-fMRI: A New Method to Study Familial Cortical Myoclonic Tremor and Epilepsy

Integrating information of neuroimaging multimodalities, such as electroencephalography (EEG) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), has become popularly for investigating various types of epilepsy. However, there are also some problems for the analysis of simultaneous EEG-fMRI data in epilepsy: one is the variation of HRFs, and another is low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) in the data. Here, we propose a new multimodal unsupervised method, termed local multimodal serial analysis (LMSA), which may compensate for these deficiencies in multimodal integration. A simulation study with comparison to the traditional EEG-informed fMRI analysis which directly implemented the general linear model (GLM) was conducted to confirm the superior performance of LMSA. Then, applied to the simultaneous EEG-fMRI data of familial cortical myoclonic tremor and epilepsy (FCMTE), some meaningful information of BOLD changes related to the EEG discharges, such as the cerebellum and frontal lobe (especially in the inferior frontal gyrus), were found using LMSA. These results demonstrate that LMSA is a promising technique for exploring various data to provide integrated information that will further our understanding of brain dysfunction.

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