Zero-crossing patterns reveal subtle epileptiform discharges in the scalp EEG - Sorbonne Université
Journal Articles Scientific Reports Year : 2021

Zero-crossing patterns reveal subtle epileptiform discharges in the scalp EEG

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Clinical diagnosis of epilepsy depends heavily on the detection of interictal epileptiform discharges (IEDs) from scalp electroencephalographic (EEG) signals, which by purely visual means is far from straightforward. Here, we introduce a simple signal analysis procedure based on scalp EEG zero-crossing patterns which can extract the spatiotemporal structure of scalp voltage fluctuations. We analyzed simultaneous scalp and intracranial EEG recordings from patients with pharmacoresistant temporal lobe epilepsy. Our data show that a large proportion of intracranial IEDs manifest only as subtle, low-amplitude waveforms below scalp EEG background and could, therefore, not be detected visually. We found that scalp zero-crossing patterns allow detection of these intracranial IEDs on a single-trial level with millisecond temporal precision and including some mesial temporal discharges that do not propagate to the neocortex. Applied to an independent dataset, our method discriminated accurately between patients with epilepsy and normal subjects, confirming its practical applicability.
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hal-03148590 , version 1 (22-02-2021)

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Jan Pyrzowski, Jean- Eudes Le Douget, Amal Fouad, Mariusz Siemiński, Joanna Jędrzejczak, et al.. Zero-crossing patterns reveal subtle epileptiform discharges in the scalp EEG. Scientific Reports, 2021, 11, pp.4128. ⟨10.1038/s41598-021-83337-3⟩. ⟨hal-03148590⟩
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