Real-time estimation of the optimal coil placement in transcranial magnetic stimulation using multi-task deep learning.

Autor: Moser P; Research Unit Medical Informatics, RISC Software GmbH, Softwarepark 32a, Hagenberg, 4232, Austria. philipp.moser@risc-software.at., Reishofer G; Department of Radiology, Medical University of Graz, Auenbruggerplatz 9, Graz, 8036, Austria., Prückl R; cortEXplore GmbH, Industriezeile 35, Linz, 4020, Austria., Schaffelhofer S; cortEXplore GmbH, Industriezeile 35, Linz, 4020, Austria., Freigang S; Department of Neurosurgery, Medical University of Graz, Auenbruggerplatz 29, Graz, 8036, Austria., Thumfart S; Research Unit Medical Informatics, RISC Software GmbH, Softwarepark 32a, Hagenberg, 4232, Austria., Mahdy Ali K; Department of Neurosurgery, Medical University of Graz, Auenbruggerplatz 29, Graz, 8036, Austria.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Scientific reports [Sci Rep] 2024 Aug 21; Vol. 14 (1), pp. 19361. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Aug 21.
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-70367-w
Abstrakt: Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) has emerged as a promising neuromodulation technique with both therapeutic and diagnostic applications. As accurate coil placement is known to be essential for focal stimulation, computational models have been established to help find the optimal coil positioning by maximizing electric fields at the cortical target. While these numerical simulations provide realistic and subject-specific field distributions, they are computationally demanding, precluding their use in real-time applications. In this paper, we developed a novel multi-task deep neural network which simultaneously predicts the optimal coil placement for a given cortical target as well as the associated TMS-induced electric field. Trained on large amounts of preceding numerical optimizations, the Attention U-Net-based neural surrogate provided accurate coil optimizations in only 35 ms, a fraction of time compared to the state-of-the-art numerical framework. The mean errors on the position estimates were below 2 mm, i.e., smaller than previously reported manual coil positioning errors. The predicted electric fields were also highly correlated (r> 0.97) with their numerical references. In addition to healthy subjects, we validated our approach also in glioblastoma patients. We first statistically underlined the importance of using realistic heterogeneous tumor conductivities instead of simply adopting values from the surrounding healthy tissue. Second, applying the trained neural surrogate to tumor patients yielded similar accurate positioning and electric field estimates as in healthy subjects. Our findings provide a promising framework for future real-time electric field-optimized TMS applications.
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Databáze: MEDLINE
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