Probabilistic functional tractography of the human cortex revisited

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  • dc.contributor.author Trebaul, Lena
  • dc.contributor.author Rocamora, Rodrigo
  • dc.contributor.author David, Olivier
  • dc.date.accessioned 2019-06-18T07:48:59Z
  • dc.date.available 2019-06-18T07:48:59Z
  • dc.date.issued 2018
  • dc.description.abstract In patients with pharmaco-resistant focal epilepsies investigated with intracranial electroencephalography (iEEG), direct electrical stimulations of a cortical region induce cortico-cortical evoked potentials (CCEP) in distant cerebral cortex, which properties can be used to infer large scale brain connectivity. In 2013, we proposed a new probabilistic functional tractography methodology to study human brain connectivity. We have now been revisiting this method in the F-TRACT project (f-tract.eu) by developing a large multicenter CCEP database of several thousand stimulation runs performed in several hundred patients, and associated processing tools to create a probabilistic atlas of human cortico-cortical connections. Here, we wish to present a snapshot of the methods and data of F-TRACT using a pool of 213 epilepsy patients, all studied by stereo-encephalography with intracerebral depth electrodes. The CCEPs were processed using an automated pipeline with the following consecutive steps: detection of each stimulation run from stimulation artifacts in raw intracranial EEG (iEEG) files, bad channels detection with a machine learning approach, model-based stimulation artifact correction, robust averaging over stimulation pulses. Effective connectivity between the stimulated and recording areas is then inferred from the properties of the first CCEP component, i.e. onset and peak latency, amplitude, duration and integral of the significant part. Finally, group statistics of CCEP features are implemented for each brain parcel explored by iEEG electrodes. The localization (coordinates, white/gray matter relative positioning) of electrode contacts were obtained from imaging data (anatomical MRI or CT scans before and after electrodes implantation). The iEEG contacts were repositioned in different brain parcellations from the segmentation of patients' anatomical MRI or from templates in the MNI coordinate system. The F-TRACT database using the first pool of 213 patients provided connectivity probability values for 95% of possible intrahemispheric and 56% of interhemispheric connections and CCEP features for 78% of intrahemisheric and 14% of interhemispheric connections. In this report, we show some examples of anatomo-functional connectivity matrices, and associated directional maps. We also indicate how CCEP features, especially latencies, are related to spatial distances, and allow estimating the velocity distribution of neuronal signals at a large scale. Finally, we describe the impact on the estimated connectivity of the stimulation charge and of the contact localization according to the white or gray matter. The most relevant maps for the scientific community are available for download on f-tract. eu (David et al., 2017) and will be regularly updated during the following months with the addition of more data in the F-TRACT database. This will provide an unprecedented knowledge on the dynamical properties of large fiber tracts in human.
  • dc.description.sponsorship he research leading to these results has received funding from the European Research Council under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP/2007-2013) / ERC Grant Agreement n. 616268 “F-TRACT”. All the computations presented in this paper were performed using the CIMENT infrastructure (https://ciment.ujf-grenoble.fr), which is supported by the Rhône-Alpes region (GRANT CPER07_13 CIRA: http://www.ci-ra.org). We thank Bruno Bzenik and Romain Cavagna for their help on the CIMENT facility, and Jean-François Mangin and Cyril Poupon from Neurospin, CEA Saclay, for providing us with the ARCHI DTI database.
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  • dc.identifier.citation Trebaul L, Deman P, Tuyisenge V, Jedynak M, Hugues E, Rudrauf D. et al. Probabilistic functional tractography of the human cortex revisited. Neuroimage. 2018 Nov 1;181:414-429. DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.07.039
  • dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.07.039
  • dc.identifier.issn 1053-8119
  • dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/41796
  • dc.language.iso eng
  • dc.publisher Elsevier
  • dc.relation.ispartof Neuroimage. 2018 Nov 1;181:414-29
  • dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7/616268
  • dc.rights 1053-8119/©2018 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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  • dc.rights.uri http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
  • dc.subject.keyword Brain atlas
  • dc.subject.keyword Connectivity mapping
  • dc.subject.keyword Cortico-cortical evoked potentials
  • dc.subject.keyword Epilepsy
  • dc.subject.keyword Intracranial electroencephalogram
  • dc.title Probabilistic functional tractography of the human cortex revisited
  • dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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