Evaluation of skull conductivity using SCALE head tissue conductivity estimation using EEG

Inaccurate estimation of skull conductivity is the largest impediment to high-resolution EEG source imaging because of its strong influence and wide variability across individuals. Nonetheless, there is yet no widely applied method for noninvasively measuring individual skull conductivity. We presented a skull conductivity and source location estimation algorithm (SCALE) for simultaneously estimating skull conductivity and the cortical distributions of 18–20 effective sources derived from the EEG data by independent component analysis (ICA). SCALE combines a realistic Finite Element Method (FEM) head model built from a magnetic resonance (MR) head image with the effective source scalp maps to estimate brain-to-skull conductivity ratio (BSCR) and to map the effective sources on the cortical surface. To estimate the robustness of SCALE BSCR estimates, we applied SCALE to MR image and high-density EEG data from ten participants, five having data from 2–3 different tasks and sessions. As expected, across participants SCALE BSCR estimates differed widely (mean 32.8, range 18–78). Within-participant SCALE BSCR estimates were far more consistent than between participants. By incorporating SCALE-optimized distributed EEG source localization, stable functional imaging of cortical EEG effective sources can become routine, giving relatively low-cost EEG imaging a spatial resolution compatible with other brain imaging results and uniquely capable for studying brain dynamics supporting thought and action in laboratory, virtual, and natural environments.

• Publication year

  2022

• Venue

  Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society

• Publication date

  2022-07-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Computer Science, Engineering

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  DOI 10.1109/EMBC48229.2022.9872004PMID 36086241
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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