Voxeloc : A time-saving graphical user interface for localizing and visualizing stereo-EEG electrodes

Article Article scientifique Article Voxeloc : A time-saving graphical user interface for localizing and visualizing stereo-EEG electrodes eng 2024-04-30 2024-04-30 author Monney Jonathan Clinical Neuroscience department, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland; Basic Neuroscience department, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland. 726757 Département des neurosciences cliniques (OTONO) author Dallaire Shannon Clinical Neuroscience department, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland; Basic Neuroscience department, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland; Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada. 416153 author Stoutah Lydia Clinical Neuroscience department, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland; Basic Neuroscience department, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland; Université Paris-Saclay, Paris, France. 991038 author Fanda Lora Clinical Neuroscience department, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland; Basic Neuroscience department, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland. 967917 Département des neurosciences cliniques (OTONO) author Megevand Pierre Bastien 0000-0002-0427-547X Clinical Neuroscience department, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland; Basic Neuroscience department, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland; Neurology division, Geneva University Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland. Electronic address: pierre.megevand@unige.ch. 510484 Département des neurosciences cliniques (OTONO) 110154 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2024.110154 38697518 0165-0270 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0165027024000992 Background: Thanks to its unrivalled spatial and temporal resolutions and signal-to-noise ratio, intracranial EEG (iEEG) is becoming a valuable tool in neuroscience research. To attribute functional properties to cortical tissue, it is paramount to be able to determine precisely the localization of each electrode with respect to a patient's brain anatomy. Several software packages or pipelines offer the possibility to localize manually or semi-automatically iEEG electrodes. However, their reliability and ease of use may leave to be desired. New method: Voxeloc (voxel electrode locator) is a Matlab-based graphical user interface to localize and visualize stereo-EEG electrodes. Voxeloc adopts a semi-automated approach to determine the coordinates of each electrode contact, the user only needing to indicate the deep-most contact of each electrode shaft and another point more proximally. Results: With a deliberately streamlined functionality and intuitive graphical user interface, the main advantages of Voxeloc are ease of use and inter-user reliability. Additionally, oblique slices along the shaft of each electrode can be generated to facilitate the precise localization of each contact. Voxeloc is open-source software and is compatible with the open iEEG-BIDS (Brain Imaging Data Structure) format. Comparison with existing methods: Localizing full patients' iEEG implants was faster using Voxeloc than two comparable software packages, and the inter-user agreement was better. Conclusions: Voxeloc offers an easy-to-use and reliable tool to localize and visualize stereo-EEG electrodes. This will contribute to democratizing neuroscience research using iEEG. Electrode localization Electrode visualization Epilepsy surgery FreeSurfer Graphical user interface Intracranial EEG Matlab Stereo-EEG Dewey 616.8 Swiss National Science Foundation Neuronal biomarkers of seizure activity in human epilepsy 194507 CH Careers 61 Département des neurosciences cliniques 226 53 Département de neurosciences fondamentales 21A false 1361 Human Neuron Lab 1034 https://github.com/HumanNeuronLab/voxeloc Journal of neuroscience methods 407 351eeea2-28a5-4720-990a-2ad2e5851b84 Article (Published version) Public Monney_JNeurosciMethods_2024.pdf 3082352 application/pdf CC BY-4.0 9f0d788f45f310b7f91837203b8eba496a6268410e34c197f92c216209a4d368 2a944079-0020-4ac8-8421-2ede17a5f63d Supplemental data Public 1-s2.0-S0165027024000992-mmc1.docx 1644294 application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document 82ea50d800ebdb8999431bc13bdb7f0b3cb4e80319688b1e0dac5fe1f28c1e75 openAccess Faculté de médecine / Section de médecine clinique / Département des neurosciences cliniques Faculté de médecine / Section de médecine fondamentale / Département de neurosciences fondamentales

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