The white matter connectome as an individualized biomarker of language impairment in temporal lobe epilepsy
<strong>Objective</strong> The distributed white matter network underlying language leads to difficulties in extracting clinically meaningful summaries of neural alterations leading to language impairment. Here we determine the predictive ability of the structural connectome (SC), compar...
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| author | Kaestner, E Balachandra, AR Bahrami, N Reyes, A Lalani, SJ Macari, AC Voets, NL Drane, DL Paul, BM Bonilha, L McDonald, CR |
| author_facet | Kaestner, E Balachandra, AR Bahrami, N Reyes, A Lalani, SJ Macari, AC Voets, NL Drane, DL Paul, BM Bonilha, L McDonald, CR |
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| description | <strong>Objective</strong>
The distributed white matter network underlying language leads to difficulties in extracting clinically meaningful summaries of neural alterations leading to language impairment. Here we determine the predictive ability of the structural connectome (SC), compared with global measures of white matter tract microstructure and clinical data, to discriminate language impaired patients with temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) from TLE patients without language impairment.
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<strong>Methods</strong>
T1- and diffusion-MRI, clinical variables (CVs), and neuropsychological measures of naming and verbal fluency were available for 82 TLE patients. Prediction of language impairment was performed using a robust tree-based classifier (XGBoost) for three models: (1) a CV-model which included demographic and epilepsy-related clinical features, (2) an atlas-based tract-model, including four frontotemporal white matter association tracts implicated in language (i.e., the bilateral arcuate fasciculus, inferior frontal occipital fasciculus, inferior longitudinal fasciculus, and uncinate fasciculus), and (3) a SC-model based on diffusion MRI. For the association tracts, mean fractional anisotropy was calculated as a measure of white matter microstructure for each tract using a diffusion tensor atlas (i.e., AtlasTrack). The SC-model used measurement of cortical-cortical connections arising from a temporal lobe subnetwork derived using probabilistic tractography. Dimensionality reduction of the SC was performed with principal components analysis (PCA). Each model was trained on 49 patients from one epilepsy center and tested on 33 patients from a different center (i.e., an independent dataset). Randomization was performed to test the stability of the results.
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<strong>Results</strong>
The SC-model yielded a greater area under the curve (AUC; .73) and accuracy (79%) compared to both the tract-model (AUC: .54, p < .001; accuracy: 70%, p < .001) and the CV-model (AUC: .59, p < .001; accuracy: 64%, p < .001). Within the SC-model, lateral temporal connections had the highest importance to model performance, including connections similar to language association tracts such as links between the superior temporal gyrus to pars opercularis. However, in addition to these connections many additional connections that were widely distributed, bilateral and interhemispheric in nature were identified as contributing to SC-model performance.
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<strong>Conclusion</strong>
The SC revealed a white matter network contributing to language impairment that was widely distributed, bilateral, and lateral temporal in nature. The distributed network underlying language may be why the SC-model has an advantage in identifying sub-components of the complex fiber networks most relevant for aspects of language performance. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:fe6d993c-2536-4241-8ecf-a4903451f9702022-03-27T13:36:25ZThe white matter connectome as an individualized biomarker of language impairment in temporal lobe epilepsyJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:fe6d993c-2536-4241-8ecf-a4903451f970EnglishSymplectic ElementsElsevier2019Kaestner, EBalachandra, ARBahrami, NReyes, ALalani, SJMacari, ACVoets, NLDrane, DLPaul, BMBonilha, LMcDonald, CR<strong>Objective</strong> The distributed white matter network underlying language leads to difficulties in extracting clinically meaningful summaries of neural alterations leading to language impairment. Here we determine the predictive ability of the structural connectome (SC), compared with global measures of white matter tract microstructure and clinical data, to discriminate language impaired patients with temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) from TLE patients without language impairment. <br> <strong>Methods</strong> T1- and diffusion-MRI, clinical variables (CVs), and neuropsychological measures of naming and verbal fluency were available for 82 TLE patients. Prediction of language impairment was performed using a robust tree-based classifier (XGBoost) for three models: (1) a CV-model which included demographic and epilepsy-related clinical features, (2) an atlas-based tract-model, including four frontotemporal white matter association tracts implicated in language (i.e., the bilateral arcuate fasciculus, inferior frontal occipital fasciculus, inferior longitudinal fasciculus, and uncinate fasciculus), and (3) a SC-model based on diffusion MRI. For the association tracts, mean fractional anisotropy was calculated as a measure of white matter microstructure for each tract using a diffusion tensor atlas (i.e., AtlasTrack). The SC-model used measurement of cortical-cortical connections arising from a temporal lobe subnetwork derived using probabilistic tractography. Dimensionality reduction of the SC was performed with principal components analysis (PCA). Each model was trained on 49 patients from one epilepsy center and tested on 33 patients from a different center (i.e., an independent dataset). Randomization was performed to test the stability of the results. <br> <strong>Results</strong> The SC-model yielded a greater area under the curve (AUC; .73) and accuracy (79%) compared to both the tract-model (AUC: .54, p < .001; accuracy: 70%, p < .001) and the CV-model (AUC: .59, p < .001; accuracy: 64%, p < .001). Within the SC-model, lateral temporal connections had the highest importance to model performance, including connections similar to language association tracts such as links between the superior temporal gyrus to pars opercularis. However, in addition to these connections many additional connections that were widely distributed, bilateral and interhemispheric in nature were identified as contributing to SC-model performance. <br> <strong>Conclusion</strong> The SC revealed a white matter network contributing to language impairment that was widely distributed, bilateral, and lateral temporal in nature. The distributed network underlying language may be why the SC-model has an advantage in identifying sub-components of the complex fiber networks most relevant for aspects of language performance. |
| spellingShingle | Kaestner, E Balachandra, AR Bahrami, N Reyes, A Lalani, SJ Macari, AC Voets, NL Drane, DL Paul, BM Bonilha, L McDonald, CR The white matter connectome as an individualized biomarker of language impairment in temporal lobe epilepsy |
| title | The white matter connectome as an individualized biomarker of language impairment in temporal lobe epilepsy |
| title_full | The white matter connectome as an individualized biomarker of language impairment in temporal lobe epilepsy |
| title_fullStr | The white matter connectome as an individualized biomarker of language impairment in temporal lobe epilepsy |
| title_full_unstemmed | The white matter connectome as an individualized biomarker of language impairment in temporal lobe epilepsy |
| title_short | The white matter connectome as an individualized biomarker of language impairment in temporal lobe epilepsy |
| title_sort | white matter connectome as an individualized biomarker of language impairment in temporal lobe epilepsy |
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