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Developing An Imaging Biomarker To Detect Aberrant Brain Connectivity In Individual Patients, Esther Cox
Developing An Imaging Biomarker To Detect Aberrant Brain Connectivity In Individual Patients, Esther Cox
Master's Theses (2009 -)
Resting state functional MRI (rsfMRI) has been proven to be a valuable tool in clinical applications such as pre-surgical mapping, but there is not yet a functional and usable algorithm that can be used by physicians in a clinical setting to evaluate an individual patient for diseases and aberrant brain connectivity. If a physician wants to evaluate a patient in this way, the rsfMRI data must be looked at “by hand,” i.e. the physician must manually evaluate the data and identify the functional ICN’s and whether they are normal or aberrant. An algorithm that would automate this process and supplement …
Methods For Detecting High-Frequency Oscillations In Ongoing Brain Signals: Application To The Determination Of Epileptic Seizure Onset Zones, Chiran Dilip Doshi
Methods For Detecting High-Frequency Oscillations In Ongoing Brain Signals: Application To The Determination Of Epileptic Seizure Onset Zones, Chiran Dilip Doshi
Master's Theses (2009 -)
Epilepsy is a neurological disorder with varied expression. Patients with focal onset seizures that are resistant to medications can benefit from ablative surgery. However, localization of the seizure onset zone (SOZ) and characterization of propagation to secondary areas can be challenging. The present study aimed at developing the appropriate signal processing methodology to detect bursts of interictal high-frequency oscillations (HFOs), as a possible signature of the SOZ, in patients with drug-resistant partial epilepsy. Additionally, invasive interictal and ictal intracranial electroencephalography (iEEG) data and non-invasive electromagnetic source imaging with magnetoencephalography (MEG) data from three subjects were analyzed. We developed a novel …