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Emily T Wang¹, Marina Vannucci¹, Zulfi Haneef^2,3

¹Department of Statistics, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005.

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|November 7, 2022

Summary

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Seizures in epilepsy can follow cyclical patterns, occurring over various time scales. This study models these seizure cycles using statistical dynamical systems to understand their underlying mechanisms.

Keywords:

Bayesian inference Markov chain Monte Carlo chronotypes dynamical systems epilepsy seizure cycling seizures spectral analysis

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Background:

Epilepsy is characterized by recurrent seizures, often exhibiting temporal patterns.
Intracranial electroencephalography (EEG) reveals cycling patterns in epileptogenicity, influencing seizure timing.
Mechanisms driving seizure cycles remain largely unknown.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop a statistical dynamical systems framework for modeling seizure chronotypes.
To estimate latent seizure cycles and uncover clusters in cycling tendencies.
To characterize multidien seizure cycle variations across a large epilepsy patient cohort.

Main Methods:

Developed a Bayesian switching linear dynamical system (SLDS) with variable selection.
Employed a particle Gibbs with ancestral sampling Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithm.
Applied unsupervised learning on spectral features of latent cycles.
Analyzed a large dataset of patient-reported seizures from 1,012 individuals.

Main Results:

Successfully estimated latent seizure cycles using the proposed SLDS model.
Identified distinct clusters of cycling tendencies within the patient population.
Characterized multidien seizure cycling patterns across diverse age groups.

Conclusions:

The study provides a novel statistical dynamical systems approach to model seizure cycles in epilepsy.
Demonstrates the utility of SLDS in framing seizure cycling within a nonlinear dynamical systems framework.
Lays the groundwork for data-driven hypothesis generation on the mechanistic drivers of seizure cycles.