SEEG epileptogencity maps

[TUTORIAL UNDER DEVELOPMENT: NOT READY FOR PUBLIC USE]

Authors: Francois Tadel, Olivier David.

This tutorial introduces some concepts that are specific to the management of SEEG recordings in the Brainstorm environment, and explains how to compute maps of epileptogenicity from ictal recordings. It is based on a clinical case from the Grenoble University Hospital, France.

Note that the operations used here are not detailed, the goal of this tutorial is not to introduce Brainstorm to new users. For in-depth explanations of the interface and theoretical foundations, please refer to the introduction tutorials.

Warning: The same tools can be used for processing and displaying ECOG, but this hasn't been debugged properly yet. Please let us know how to improve the ECOG support.

Dataset description

License

This tutorial dataset (EEG and MRI data) remains property of the Grenoble University Hospital, France. Its use and transfer outside the ImaGIN and Brainstorm tutorials, e.g. for research purposes, is prohibited without written consent. For questions, please contact Olivier David, PhD ( olivier.david@inserm.fr ).

Clinical description

This dataset includes recordings for a patient that was not reported in the above article, but are part of the same study. The patient presents a focal epilepsy of the left temporo-occipital junction, MRI-negative, and was implanted in the surrounding areas. The subfolder "seeg" contains the recordings of three seizures, all of them showing a propagation of high-frequency oscillations from the lesion towards the temporal lobe, bilaterally.

SEEG recordings

http://neuroimage.usc.edu/brainstorm/DatasetEpileptogenicity?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=dixi_am.gif

The depth electrodes used in this example dataset are DIXI D08-**AM Microdeep electrodes, with the following specifications:

  • Diameter: 0.8 mm
  • Contact length: 2 mm
  • Insulator length: 1.5 mm
  • Distance between the center of two contacts: 3.5 mm
  • Between 8 and 18 contacts on each electrode

Files

The dataset we distribute with this tutorial follows the Brain Imaging Data Structure (BIDS) standard for neuroimaging data organization. This specification was first established for MRI and fMRI (Gorgolewski, 2016) and then refined with an extension dedicated to iEEG (Holdgraf, 2019). The files that will be imported in this tutorial are the following:

tutorial_epimap_bids/

  • derivatives/: Everything that cannot be considered as raw data

    • brainvisa/sub-01_ses-pre/: Result of the BrainVISA 4.5 segmentation for the pre-implantation T1 MRI.

  • sub-01/: Raw data for subject 01

    • ses-preimp/: Imaging exams performed before the implantation of the sEEG.

      • anat/sub-01_ses-preimp_T1w.nii.gz: T1-weighted MRI pre-implantation

    • ses-postimp/: Exams performed with the sEEG devices implanted.

      • anat/sub-01_ses-postimp_T1w.nii.gz: T1-weighted MRI post-implantation

      • ieeg/..._task-seizure_run-0*_ieeg.eeg: Three seizure recordings in BrainVision file format, one seizure per file (with the header files .vhdr and .vmrk)

      • ieeg/..._space-IXI549Space_electrodes.tsv: Position of the contacts in MNI space (SPM12 Segment non-linear normalization)

      • ieeg/..._space-ScanRAS_electrodes.tsv: Position of the contacts in world coordinates, relative to the post-implantation T1 MRI.

  • All the anatomical images have been de-identified with mri_deface from FreeSurfer 6.

References

The acquisition methodology is described in the following articles:

David O, Blauwblomme T, Job AS, Chabardès S, Hoffmann D, Minotti L, Kahane P, Imaging the seizure onset zone with stereo-electroencephalography, Brain. 2011 Oct;134(10):2898-911

Lamarche F, Job AS, Deman P, Bhattacharjee M, Hoffmann D, Gallazzini-Crépin C, Bouvard S, Minotti L, Kahane P, David O, Correlation of FDG-PET hypometabolism and SEEG epileptogenicity mapping in patients with drug-resistant focal epilepsy, Epilepsia. 2016 Dec; 57(12):2045–2055

Download and installation

How to get the example dataset:

Files included in this package:

Import the anatomy

Create new subject

Pre-implantation MRI

Post-implantation MRI

Generate default surfaces

Access the recordings

Import the contacts positions

Display the depth electrodes

3D figures

MRI Viewer

Panel iEEG

Display the SEEG recordings

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Guidelines panel

Easy way for reproducing all these steps

On the hard drive

IntraElectrodes structure

Volume coregistration

Editing the contacts positions

Creating a new implantation file

Same as previous section, but not starting from an existing of contacts.

Importing realistic surfaces

Tutorials/Epileptogenicity (last edited 2017-11-14 16:09:37 by FrancoisTadel)