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ArticleHuman brain mapping2019

MP2RAGE multispectral voxel-based morphometry in focal epilepsy.

Raviteja Kotikalapudi, Pascal Martin, Michael Erb, Klaus Scheffler, Justus Marquetand, Benjamin Bender, Niels K Focke

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Article in Human brain mapping, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6 citing papers in PubMed, 17 citations in OpenAlex.

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7 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Raviteja KotikalapudiDepartment of Diagnostic and Interventional Neuroradiology, University Hospital Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-4604-3367
Pascal MartinDepartment of Neurology and Epileptology, Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research, University Hospital Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.
Michael ErbDepartment of Biomedical Magnetic Resonance, University Hospital Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.
Klaus SchefflerDepartment of Biomedical Magnetic Resonance, University Hospital Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.
Justus MarquetandDepartment of Neurology and Epileptology, Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research, University Hospital Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.
Benjamin BenderDepartment of Diagnostic and Interventional Neuroradiology, University Hospital Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.
Niels K FockeDepartment of Neurology and Epileptology, Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research, University Hospital Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-5486-6289
Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research · DEMax Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics · DE

Funding

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft FO750/5-1PATE program University of Tuebingen F1315030
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We assessed the applicability of MP2RAGE for voxel-based morphometry. To this end, we analyzed its brain tissue segmentation characteristics in healthy subjects and the potential for detecting focal epileptogenic lesions (previously visible and nonvisible). Automated results and expert visual interpretations were compared with conventional VBM variants (i.e., T1 and T1 + FLAIR). Thirty-one healthy controls and 21 patients with focal epilepsy were recruited. 3D T1-, T2-FLAIR, and MP2RAGE images (consisting of INV1, INV2, and MP2 maps) were acquired on a 3T MRI. The effects of brain tissue segmentation and lesion detection rates were analyzed among single- and multispectral VBM variants. MP2-single-contrast gave better delineation of deep, subcortical nuclei but was prone to misclassification of dura/vessels as gray matter, even more than conventional-T1. The addition of multispectral combinations (INV1, INV2, or FLAIR) could markedly reduce such misclassifications. MP2 + INV1 yielded generally clearer gray matter segmentation allowing better differentiation of white matter and neighboring gyri. Different models detected known lesions with a sensitivity between 60 and 100%. In non lesional cases, MP2 + INV1 was found to be best with a concordant rate of 37.5%, specificity of 51.6% and concordant to discordant ratio of 0.60. In summary, we show that multispectral MP2RAGE VBM (e.g., MP2 + INV1, MP2 + INV2) can improve brain tissue segmentation and lesion detection in epilepsy.

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AdultBrainEpilepsies, PartialFemaleGray MatterHumansImage Processing, Computer-AssistedMagnetic Resonance ImagingMaleWhite Matterepilepsylesion detectionMP2RAGEMRI-negativesmoothingstatistical thresholdsVBM

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