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ArticleBMC medical imaging2022

Cortical thickness analysis in temporal lobe epilepsy using fully Bayesian spectral method in magnetic resonance imaging.

Iman Sarbisheh, Leili Tapak, Alireza Fallahi, Javad Fardmal, Majid Sadeghifar, MohammadReza Nazemzadeh, Jafar Mehvari Habibabadi

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Iman SarbishehDepartment of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran.
Leili TapakDepartment of Biostatistics, School of Public Health and Modeling of Noncommunicable Diseases Research Center, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran. l.tapak@umsha.ac.ir.
Alireza FallahiResearch Center for Molecular and Cellular Imaging, Advanced Medical Technologies and Instruments Institute (AMTII), Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Javad FardmalDepartment of Biostatistics, School of Public Health and Modeling of Noncommunicable Diseases Research Center, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran.
Majid SadeghifarDepartment of Statistics, Faculty of Science, Bu-Ali Sina University, Hamadan, Iran.
MohammadReza NazemzadehResearch Center for Molecular and Cellular Imaging, Advanced Medical Technologies and Instruments Institute (AMTII), Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Jafar Mehvari HabibabadiDepartment of Medicine, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran.

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Hamadan Unive 99010534
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Abstract

backgroundTemporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) is the most common type of epilepsy associated with changes in the cerebral cortex throughout the brain. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is widely used for detecting such anomalies; nevertheless, it produces spatially correlated data that cannot be considered by the usual statistical models. This study aimed to compare cortical thicknesses between patients with TLE and healthy controls by considering the spatial dependencies across different regions of the cerebral cortex in MRI.

methodsIn this study, T1-weighted MRI was performed on 20 healthy controls and 33 TLE patients. Nineteen patients had a left TLE and 14 had a right TLE. Cortical thickness was measured for all individuals in 68 regions of the cerebral cortex based on images. Fully Bayesian spectral method was utilized to compare the cortical thickness of different brain regions between groups. Neural networks model was used to classify the patients using the identified regions.

resultsFor the left TLE patients, cortical thinning was observed in bilateral caudal anterior cingulate, lateral orbitofrontal (ipsilateral), the bilateral rostral anterior cingulate, frontal pole and temporal pole (ipsilateral), caudal middle frontal and rostral middle frontal (contralateral side). For the right TLE patients, cortical thinning was only observed in the entorhinal area (ipsilateral). The AUCs of the neural networks for classification of left and right TLE patients versus healthy controls were 0.939 and 1.000, respectively.

conclusionAlteration of cortical gray matter thickness was evidenced as common effect of epileptogenicity, as manifested by the patients in this study using the fully Bayesian spectral method by taking into account the complex structure of the data.

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Epilepsy, Temporal LobeBayes TheoremCerebral CortexCerebral Cortical ThinningHumansMagnetic Resonance ImagingCortical thicknessMarkov chain Monte CarloMatérn correlationSpatial dependenceTemporal lobe epilepsy

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