ArticleFrontiers in psychiatry2022
The decreased connectivity in middle temporal gyrus can be used as a potential neuroimaging biomarker for left temporal lobe epilepsy.
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- Explainable Deep Learning for MRI-Negative Temporal Lobe Epilepsy: Classification and Brain Region Analysis.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Identify MRI negative temporal lobe epilepsy with resting fMRI indicators and machine learning techniques.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Mapping Functional Connectivity Signatures of Pharmacoresistant Focal Cortical Dysplasia-Related Epilepsy.Annals of neurology · 2024Article
- Disrupted interhemispheric coordination of sensory-motor networks and insula in major depressive disorder.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Article
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Objective: We aimed to explore voxel-mirrored homotopic connectivity (VMHC) abnormalities between the two brain hemispheres in left temporal lobe epilepsy (lTLE) patients and to determine whether these alterations could be leveraged to guide lTLE diagnosis. Materials and methods: Fifty-eight lTLE patients and sixty healthy controls (HCs) matched in age, sex, and education level were recruited to receive resting state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI) scan. Then VHMC analyses of bilateral brain regions were conducted based on the results of these rs-fMRI scans. The resultant imaging data were further analyzed using support vector machine (SVM) methods. Results: Compared to HCs, patients with lTLE exhibited decreased VMHC values in the bilateral middle temporal gyrus (MTG) and middle cingulum gyrus (MCG), while no brain regions in these patients exhibited increased VMHC values. SVM analyses revealed the diagnostic accuracy of reduced bilateral MTG VMHC values to be 75.42% (89/118) when differentiating between lTLE patients and HCs, with respective sensitivity and specificity values of 74.14% (43/58) and 76.67% (46/60). Conclusion: Patients with lTLE exhibit abnormal VMHC values corresponding to the impairment of functional coordination between homotopic regions of the brain. These altered MTG VMHC values may also offer value as a robust neuroimaging biomarker that can guide lTLE patient diagnosis.
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