title: Computer-Aided Diagnosis and Localization of Lateralized Temporal Lobe Epilepsy Using Interictal FDG-PET.
abstract: Interictal FDG-PET (iPET) is a core tool for localizing the epileptogenic focus, potentially before structural MRI, that does not require rare and transient epileptiform discharges or seizures on EEG. The visual interpretation of iPET is challenging and requires years of epilepsy-specific expertise. We have developed an automated computer-aided diagnostic (CAD) tool that has the potential to work both independent of and synergistically with expert analysis. Our tool operates on distributed metabolic changes across the whole brain measured by iPET to both diagnose and lateralize temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE). When diagnosing left TLE (LTLE) or right TLE (RTLE) vs. non-epileptic seizures (NES), our accuracy in reproducing the results of the gold standard long term video-EEG monitoring was 82% [95% confidence interval (CI) 69-90%] or 88% (95% CI 76-94%), respectively. The classifier that both diagnosed and lateralized the disease had overall accuracy of 76% (95% CI 66-84%), where 89% (95% CI 77-96%) of patients correctly identified with epilepsy were correctly lateralized. When identifying LTLE, our CAD tool utilized metabolic changes across the entire brain. By contrast, only temporal regions and the right frontal lobe cortex, were needed to identify RTLE accurately, a finding consistent with clinical observations and indicative of a potential pathophysiological difference between RTLE and LTLE. The goal of CADs is to complement - not replace - expert analysis. In our dataset, the accuracy of manual analysis (MA) of iPET (∼80%) was similar to CAD. The square correlation between our CAD tool and MA, however, was only 30%, indicating that our CAD tool does not recreate MA. The addition of clinical information to our CAD, however, did not substantively change performance. These results suggest that automated analysis might provide clinically valuable information to focus treatment more effectively.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biomathematics, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA, USA ; Laboratory of Integrative Neuroimaging Technology, Department of Psychiatry, Neuropsychiatric Institute, University of California Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA, USA.
authors.forename: Wesley T
authors.initials: WT
authors.lastname: Kerr
authors.forename: Stefan T
authors.initials: ST
authors.lastname: Nguyen
authors.forename: Andrew Y
authors.initials: AY
authors.lastname: Cho
authors.forename: Edward P
authors.initials: EP
authors.lastname: Lau
authors.forename: Daniel H
authors.initials: DH
authors.lastname: Silverman
authors.forename: Pamela K
authors.initials: PK
authors.lastname: Douglas
authors.forename: Navya M
authors.initials: NM
authors.lastname: Reddy
authors.forename: Ariana
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Anderson
authors.forename: Jennifer
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Bramen
authors.forename: Noriko
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Salamon
authors.forename: John M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Stern
authors.forename: Mark S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Cohen
keywords: PET; computer-aided diagnosis; epilepsy; fluoro-deoxyglucose positron emission tomography; machine learning; mutual information; temporal lobe epilepsy
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