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Localising the Seizure Onset Zone from Single-Pulse Electrical Stimulation Responses with a CNN Transformer

Norris, Jamie; Chari, Aswin; Van Blooijs, Dorien; Cooray, Gerald K; Friston, Karl; Tisdall, Martin M; Rosch, Richard E; (2024) Localising the Seizure Onset Zone from Single-Pulse Electrical Stimulation Responses with a CNN Transformer. In: Deshpande, Kaivalya and Fiterau, Madalina and Joshi, Shalmali and Lipton, Zachary and Ranganath, Rajesh and Urteaga, Iñigo, (eds.) Proceedings of the 9th Machine Learning for Healthcare Conference: PMLR. (pp. pp. 1-21). PMLR: Toronto, Canada. Green open access

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Abstract

Epilepsy is one of the most common neurological disorders, often requiring surgical intervention when medication fails to control seizures. For effective surgical outcomes, precise localisation of the epileptogenic focus - often approximated through the Seizure Onset Zone (SOZ) - is critical yet remains a challenge. Active probing through electrical stimulation is already standard clinical practice for identifying epileptogenic areas. Our study advances the application of deep learning for SOZ localisation using Single-Pulse Electrical Stimulation (SPES) responses, with two key contributions. Firstly, we implement an existing deep learning model to compare two SPES analysis paradigms: divergent and convergent. These paradigms evaluate outward and inward effective connections, respectively. We assess the generalisability of these models to unseen patients and electrode placements using held-out test sets. Our findings reveal a notable improvement in moving from a divergent (AUROC: 0.574) to a convergent approach (AUROC: 0.666), marking the first application of the latter in this context. Secondly, we demonstrate the efficacy of CNN Transformers with cross-channel attention in handling heterogeneous electrode placements, increasing the AUROC to 0.730. These findings represent a significant step in modelling patient-specific intracranial EEG electrode placements in SPES. Future work will explore integrating these models into clinical decision-making processes to bridge the gap between deep learning research and practical healthcare applications.

Type: Proceedings paper
Title: Localising the Seizure Onset Zone from Single-Pulse Electrical Stimulation Responses with a CNN Transformer
Event: 9th Machine Learning for Healthcare Conference, PMLR
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
Publisher version: https://proceedings.mlr.press/v252/norris24a.html
Language: English
Additional information: This is an Open Access article published under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) Licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute of Health Informatics
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > UCL GOS Institute of Child Health
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology > Imaging Neuroscience
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > UCL GOS Institute of Child Health > Developmental Neurosciences Dept
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10205010
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