Automatic detection of the epileptogenic zone: An application of the fingerprint of epilepsy

BACKGROUND The successful delineation of the epileptogenic zone in epilepsy monitoring is crucial for achieving seizure freedom after epilepsy surgery. NEW METHOD We aim to improve epileptogenic zone localization by utilizing a computer-assisted tool for the automated grading of the seizure activity recorded in various locations for 20 patients undergoing stereo electroencephalography. Their epileptic seizures were processed to extract two potential biomarkers. The concentration of these biomarkers from within each patient's implantation were then graded to identify their epileptogenic zone and were compared to the clinical assessment. RESULTS Our technique was capable of ranking the clinically defined epileptogenic zone with high accuracy, above 95%, with a true to false positive ratio of 1:1.52, and was effective with both temporal and extra-temporal onset epilepsies. COMPARISON WITH EXISTING METHOD We compared our method to two other groups performing localization using similar biomarkers. Our classification metrics, sensitivity and precision together were comparable to both groups and our overall accuracy from a larger population was also higher then both. CONCLUSIONS Our method is highly accurate, automated and non-parametric providing clinicians another tool that can be used to help identify the epileptogenic zone in patients undergoing the stereo electroencephalography procedure for epilepsy monitoring.

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