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EpiGauss: Spatio-temporal Characterization of Epiletogenic Activity Applied to Hypothalamic Hamartomas

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Image Analysis and Recognition (ICIAR 2006)

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EpiGauss is a method that combines single dipole model with dipole clustering to characterize active brain generators in space and time related to EEG events. EpiGauss was applied to study epileptogenic activity in 4 patients suffering of hypothalamic hamartoma related epilepsy, a rare syndrome with a unique epileptogenic source – the hamartoma lesion – and natural propagation hypothesis – from hamartoma to the surface EEG focus. The results are compared to Rap-MUSIC and Single Moving Dipole methods over the same patients.

The present work was partially funded by the “Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia” from Portugal through the projects Topo3D (POSI/CPS/39758/2001) and EpilBI (POSC/EEA-CPS/60977/2004).

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Fernandes, J.M., Leal, A., Cunha, J.P.S. (2006). EpiGauss: Spatio-temporal Characterization of Epiletogenic Activity Applied to Hypothalamic Hamartomas. In: Campilho, A., Kamel, M. (eds) Image Analysis and Recognition. ICIAR 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4142. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11867661_61

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