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A library of quantitative markers of seizure severity
Sarah J. Gascoigne, Leonard Waldmann, Mariella Panagiotopoulou, Fahmida Chowdhury, Alison Cronie, Beate Diehl, John S. Duncan, Jennifer Falconer, Yu Guan, Veronica Leach, Shona Livingstone, Christoforos Papasavvas, Ryan Faulder, Jess Blickwedel, Gabrielle M. Schroeder, Rhys H. Thomas, Kevin Wilson, Peter N. Taylor, Yujiang Wang
Purpose: Understanding fluctuations of seizure severity within individuals is important for defining treatment outcomes and response to therapy, as well as developing novel treatments for epilepsy. Current methods for grading seizure severity rely on qualitative interpretations from patients and clinicians. Quantitative measures of seizure severity would complement existing approaches, for EEG monitoring, outcome monitoring, and seizure prediction. Therefore, we developed a library of quantitative electroencephalographic (EEG) markers that assess the spread and intensity of abnormal electrical activity during and after seizures. Methods: We analysed intracranial EEG (iEEG) recordings of 1056 seizures from 63 patients. For each seizure, we computed 16 markers of seizure severity that capture the signal magnitude, spread, duration, and post-ictal suppression of seizures. Results: Quantitative EEG markers of seizure severity distinguished focal vs. subclinical and focal vs. FTBTC seizures across patients. In individual patients, 71% had a moderate to large difference (ranksum r > 0.3) between focal and subclinical seizures in three or more markers. Circadian and longer-term changes in severity were found for 67% and 53% of patients, respectively. Conclusion: We demonstrate the feasibility of using quantitative iEEG markers to measure seizure severity. Our quantitative markers distinguish between seizure types and are therefore sensitive to established qualitative differences in seizure severity. Our results also suggest that seizure severity is modulated over different timescales. We envisage that our proposed seizure severity library will be expanded and updated in collaboration with the epilepsy research community to include more measures and modalities.
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