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The effects of epilepsy in a patient can be significantly reduced with medical treatment. However, in some patients or after some time the anti-epileptic drugs do not take effect, being candidates to surgery. Preliminary studies of the patient are usually limited to EEG and MRI, and the epileptic focus is located using brain imaging algorithms that do not provide enough certainty to the specialist. In this work four of the most widely used free distribution neuroimaging software are tested with real epileptic data (EEGLab, SPM, LORETA, and Cartool), with the objective of illustrating their capabilities for locating the epileptic focus. As a result, a novel methodology for robust estimation that includes the advantages of the four software is proposed.
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Ossa, A., Borrego, C., Trujillo, M., Lopez, J.D. (2015). Comparison of Free Distribution Software for EEG Focal Epileptic Source Localization. In: Ferrández Vicente, J., Álvarez-Sánchez, J., de la Paz López, F., Toledo-Moreo, F., Adeli, H. (eds) Artificial Computation in Biology and Medicine. IWINAC 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9107. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18914-7_39
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