Free and open source software tools for medical image processing in the treatment of refractory epilepsy.

Rodolfo E. Rodríguez Schmädke; Claudia Alicia Neme; Juan Pablo Graffigna

Rodolfo E. Rodríguez Schmädke Gabinete de Tecnología Médica (GATEME), Departamento de Electrónica y Automática, Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad Nacional de San Juan (UNSJ).
Claudia Alicia Neme Gabinete de Tecnología Médica (GATEME), Departamento de Electrónica y Automática, Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad Nacional de San Juan (UNSJ).
Juan Pablo Graffigna Gabinete de Tecnología Médica (GATEME), Departamento de Electrónica y Automática, Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad Nacional de San Juan (UNSJ).

Resumen

The methods and tools that assists during the non-invasive determination of functional regions in cases of refractory epilepsy are essential. Along with this train of thought, a new method is presented for the dynamic visualization of the electric map and its incorporation in a multimodal scene using free image processing tools, such as VTK and Python. From the electric map and
geometry generated by Brainstorm the registration is done obtaining different transformation matrices and with them three-dimensional surface files are written along with the information of the electric map. The visualization together with the rest of the patient's co-registered imaging studies can be integrated into a multimodal free viewer, such as 3D Slicer. In this work, the procedure performed is described.