公开(公告)号：US20180240549A1

公开(公告)日：2018-08-23

申请号：US15753372

申请日：2016-08-18

Applicant: University of Exeter

Inventor： John Terry ,  Marc Goodfellow

IPC: G16H50/20 ,  G16H50/50 ,  G06N3/10

CPC classification number: G16H50/20 ,  A61B5/4094 ,  G06N3/10 ,  G16H20/40 ,  G16H50/50

Abstract: A computer-implemented apparatus for predicting an effect of a proposed surgical strategy for treatment of epilepsy and/or epileptic seizures, configured to generate synthetic brain activity data in at least some of the nodes of a brain network model, and repeatedly: a) simulate or effect a surgical strategy comprising removal of at least one node and/or edge from said brain network and subsequently recalculate said BNI value thereof; and b) calculate a value ΔBNI representative of a magnitude of change in BNI following removal of said at least one node/edge from said brain network, so as to output multiple ΔBNI values, or data representative thereof, corresponding to respective multiple proposed surgical strategies, each comprising removal of respective nodes/edges or sets of nodes/edges from said brain network.