Bridging Temporal and Spatial Scales: Contemporary Advances in EEG-fMRI Integration With a Focus on Epilepsy.
EEG can show when epileptic activity occurs, while fMRI can add spatial information about where related changes occur. This review describes the promise and practical challenges of combining them.
Taj FH, Taiba.
Journal of medical imaging and radiation oncology · Publication date: 2026-09-12
Added to site: 2026-09-13
DOI: 10.1111/1754-9485.70182
First-publication date from the authoritative indexed record.
- Modalities
- EEG, fMRI
- Clinical focus
- Epilepsy, Source localization
- Population
- Epilepsy research, with emphasis on drug-resistant epilepsy
- Sample
- Not applicable; reviewed literature count was not reported in the abstract
- Intervention / method
- Simultaneous or integrated EEG and functional MRI methods
- Comparator
- No pooled clinical comparator reported
Clinician summary
The review synthesizes acquisition and analytic developments in EEG-fMRI for epileptogenic-network characterization and possible presurgical use. It reports no pooled diagnostic-accuracy or patient-outcome estimate.
How to interpret the findings
The abstract does not report systematic-review methods, included-study counts, pooled performance or evidence that integration improves clinical outcomes. Technical and translational barriers remain.
Equipment and disclosures
Equipment details were not verified from the abstract.
Funding and competing-interest disclosures were not verified from the abstract.
Related evidence
Compare findings from the same clinical area, including mixed results.
- Sources of the N15 TMS-evoked potential following motor cortex stimulation localize rostrals to TMS-induced electric fields and depend on dose. · Positive with limitations
- Interictal electric source imaging with open-source software and routine low-density electroencephalography: A systematic comparison of four inverse methods in drug-resistant epilepsy. · Positive with limitations
- Predicting levetiracetam neuropsychiatric adverse effects using graph-theoretical electroencephalographic network metrics in drug-naive focal epilepsy: A multicenter longitudinal study. · Positive with limitations
- Conditional spatial classification of expert-confirmed interictal epileptiform discharge epochs: An EEG-ECG ablation and SHAP analysis. · Positive with limitations
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