
Epilepsy is a neurological disorder characterized by spontaneous recurrent seizures. While 20% to 30% of epilepsy cases are untreatable with Anti-Epileptic Drugs, some of these cases can be addressed through surgical intervention. The success of such interventions greatly depends on accurately locating the epileptogenic tissue, a task achieved using diagnostic techniques like Stereotactic Electroencephalography (SEEG). SEEG utilizes multi-modal fusion to aid in electrode localization, using pre-surgical resonance and post-surgical computer tomography images as inputs. To ensure the absence of artifacts or misregistrations in the resultant images, a fusion method that accounts for electrode presence is required. We proposed an image fusion method in SEEG that incorporates electrode segmentation from computed tomography as a sampling mask during registration to address the fusion problem in SEEG. The method was validated using eight image pairs from the Retrospective Image Registration Evaluation Project (RIRE). After establishing a reference registration for the MRI and identifying eight points, we assessed the method’s efficacy by comparing the Euclidean distances between these reference points and those derived using registration with a sampling mask. The results showed that the proposed method yielded a similar average error to the registration without a sampling mask, but reduced the dispersion of the error, with a standard deviation of 0.86 when a mask was used and 5.25 when no mask was used.
Medicine (General), stereotactic electroencephalography, image fusion, Article, image registration, R5-920, Image processing, 616, computer tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, Biomedical engineering, Algorithms, Neuroscience, Visualization
Medicine (General), stereotactic electroencephalography, image fusion, Article, image registration, R5-920, Image processing, 616, computer tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, Biomedical engineering, Algorithms, Neuroscience, Visualization
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