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MRI and CT fusion in stereotactic electroencephalography (SEEG)

Pérez-Hinestroza, Jaime Pérez, Mazo, Claudia orcid logoORCID: 0000-0003-1703-8964, Trujillo, Maria orcid logoORCID: 0000-0002-0169-1339 and Herrera, Alejandro (2023) MRI and CT fusion in stereotactic electroencephalography (SEEG). Diagnostics, 13 (22). ISSN 2075-4418

Abstract
Epilepsy is a neurological disorder characterized by spontaneous recurrent seizures. While 20% to 30% of epilepsy cases are untreatable with Anti-Epileptic Drugs, some of these cases can be addressed through surgical intervention. The success of such interventions greatly depends on accurately locating the epileptogenic tissue, a task achieved using diagnostic techniques like Stereotactic Electroencephalography (SEEG). SEEG utilizes multi-modal fusion to aid in electrode localization, using pre-surgical resonance and post-surgical compute r tomography images as inputs. To ensure the absence of artifacts or misregistrations in the resultant images, a fusion method that accounts for electrode presence is required. We proposed an image fusion method in SEEG that incorporates electrode segmentation from computed tomography as a sampling mask during registration to address the fusion problem in SEEG. The method was validated using eight image pairs from the Retrospective Image Registration Evaluation Project (RIRE). After establishing a reference registration for the MRI and identifying eight points, we assessed the method’s efficacy by comparing the Euclidean distances between these reference points and those derived using registration with a sampling mask. The results showed that the proposed method yielded a similar average error to the registration without a sampling mask, but reduced the dispersion of the error, with a standard deviation of 0.86 when a mask was used and 5.25 when no mask was used.
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Item Type:Article (Published)
Refereed:Yes
Uncontrolled Keywords:image fusion; stereotactic electroencephalography; computer tomography; magnetic resonance imaging; image registration
Subjects:Biological Sciences > Neuroscience
Computer Science > Algorithms
Computer Science > Image processing
Computer Science > Visualization
Engineering > Biomedical engineering
DCU Faculties and Centres:DCU Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Engineering and Computing > School of Computing
Publisher:MDPI
Official URL:https://doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics13223420
Copyright Information:© 2023 The Authors.
ID Code:29199
Deposited On:10 Nov 2023 16:59 by Claudia Mazo . Last Modified 10 Nov 2023 16:59
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