Computational analysis of epileptic focus localization

Abstract

Epilepsy surgergy outcome strongly depends on the localization of epileptic focus. The analysis of ictal EEG (scalp or intracranial) is a gold standard for definition of localization of epileptic focus. In order to automate visual analysis of large amounts of EEG data, we examine the correlations among electrodes captured by linear, nonlinear and multilinear data analysis techniques. We study the performance of these statistical tools to understand the complex structure of epilepsy seizure and localize seizure origin. Our analysis results on four patients with temporal lobe epilepsy reveal that multiway (Tucker3 [1]) and nonlinear multiway (Kernelized Tucker3) analysis techniques are capable of capturing epileptic focus precisely when validated with clinical findings whereas linear and nonlinear analysis techniques (SVD, Kernel PCA) fail to localize seizure origin. KEY WORDS biomedical computing, data mining, unsupervised learning, multiway analysis, epileptic focus 1