Convolutional neural networks for automatic detection of Focal Cortical Dysplasia
This work addresses the challenge of accurate FCD detection in medical imaging, which is crucial for diagnosing epilepsy, but it is incremental as it improves upon existing deep learning methods.
The paper tackled the problem of automatic detection of Focal Cortical Dysplasia (FCD) on MRI images, achieving successful detection in 11 out of 15 subjects.
Focal cortical dysplasia (FCD) is one of the most common epileptogenic lesions associated with cortical development malformations. However, the accurate detection of the FCD relies on the radiologist professionalism, and in many cases, the lesion could be missed. In this work, we solve the problem of automatic identification of FCD on magnetic resonance images (MRI). For this task, we improve recent methods of Deep Learning-based FCD detection and apply it for a dataset of 15 labeled FCD patients. The model results in the successful detection of FCD on 11 out of 15 subjects.