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Delineating epileptogenic networks using brain imaging data and personalized modeling in drug-resistant epilepsy

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Precise estimates of epileptogenic zone networks (EZNs) are crucial for planning intervention strategies to treat drug-resistant focal epilepsy. Here, we present the virtual epileptic patient (VEP), a workflow that uses personalized brain models and machine learning methods to estimate EZNs and to aid surgical strategies. The structural scaffold of the patient-specific whole-brain network model is constructed from anatomical T1 and diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging. Each network node is equipped with a mathematical dynamical model to simulate seizure activity. Bayesian inference methods sample and optimize key parameters of the personalized model using functional stereoelectroencephalography recordings of patients’ seizures. These key parameters together with their personalized model determine a given patient’s EZN. Personalized models were further used to predict the outcome of surgical intervention using virtual surgeries. We evaluated the VEP workflow retrospectively using 53 patients with drug-resistant focal epilepsy. VEPs reproduced the clinically defined EZNs with a precision of 0.6, where the physical distance between epileptogenic regions identified by VEP and the clinically defined EZNs was small. Compared with the resected brain regions of 25 patients who underwent surgery, VEP showed lower false discovery rates in seizure-free patients (mean, 0.028) than in non–seizure-free patients (mean, 0.407). VEP is now being evaluated in an ongoing clinical trial (EPINOV) with an expected 356 prospective patients with epilepsy.
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hal-04086348 , version 1 (22-09-2023)

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Huifang Wang, Marmaduke Woodman, Paul Triebkorn, Jean-Didier Lemarechal, Jayant Jha, et al.. Delineating epileptogenic networks using brain imaging data and personalized modeling in drug-resistant epilepsy. Science Translational Medicine, 2023, 15 (680), ⟨10.1126/scitranslmed.abp8982⟩. ⟨hal-04086348⟩
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