一种电场计算中电导率不确定性分析的原则性方法。
A principled approach to conductivity uncertainty analysis in electric field calculations.
机构信息
Danish Research Centre for Magnetic Resonance, Centre for Functional and Diagnostic Imaging and Research, Copenhagen University Hospital Hvidovre, Kettegard Allé 30, DK-2650, Hvidovre, Denmark; Technical University of Denmark, Department of Electrical Engineering, Kongens Lyngby, Ørsteds Plads, DK-2800, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark.
Danish Research Centre for Magnetic Resonance, Centre for Functional and Diagnostic Imaging and Research, Copenhagen University Hospital Hvidovre, Kettegard Allé 30, DK-2650, Hvidovre, Denmark; Technical University of Denmark, Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Richard Petersens Plads, DK-2800, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark.
出版信息
Neuroimage. 2019 Mar;188:821-834. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.12.053. Epub 2018 Dec 27.
Uncertainty surrounding ohmic tissue conductivity impedes accurate calculation of the electric fields generated by non-invasive brain stimulation. We present an efficient and generic technique for uncertainty and sensitivity analyses, which quantifies the reliability of field estimates and identifies the most influential parameters. For this purpose, we employ a non-intrusive generalized polynomial chaos expansion to compactly approximate the multidimensional dependency of the field on the conductivities. We demonstrate that the proposed pipeline yields detailed insight into the uncertainty of field estimates for transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) and transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), identifies the most relevant tissue conductivities, and highlights characteristic differences between stimulation methods. Specifically, we test the influence of conductivity variations on (i) the magnitude of the electric field generated at each gray matter location, (ii) its normal component relative to the cortical sheet, (iii) its overall magnitude (indexed by the 98th percentile), and (iv) its overall spatial distribution. We show that TMS fields are generally less affected by conductivity variations than tDCS fields. For both TMS and tDCS, conductivity uncertainty causes much higher uncertainty in the magnitude as compared to the direction and overall spatial distribution of the electric field. Whereas the TMS fields were predominantly influenced by gray and white matter conductivity, the tDCS fields were additionally dependent on skull and scalp conductivities. Comprehensive uncertainty analyses of complex systems achieved by the proposed technique are not possible with classical methods, such as Monte Carlo sampling, without extreme computational effort. In addition, our method has the advantages of directly yielding interpretable and intuitive output metrics and of being easily adaptable to new problems.
组织的欧姆电阻性不确定阻碍了对非侵入性脑刺激产生的电场的精确计算。我们提出了一种高效且通用的不确定性和敏感性分析技术,可量化场估计的可靠性并确定最具影响力的参数。为此,我们采用非侵入性广义多项式混沌扩展来紧凑地近似场对电导率的多维依赖性。我们证明,所提出的方法为经颅磁刺激(TMS)和经颅直流电刺激(tDCS)的场估计不确定性提供了详细的见解,确定了最相关的组织电导率,并突出了刺激方法之间的特征差异。具体而言,我们测试了电导率变化对(i)在每个灰质位置产生的电场幅度,(ii)相对于皮质片的电场法向分量,(iii)其整体幅度(由第 98 百分位数索引)和(iv)其整体空间分布的影响。我们表明,与 tDCS 场相比,TMS 场通常受电导率变化的影响较小。对于 TMS 和 tDCS,与电场的方向和整体空间分布相比,电导率不确定性导致幅度的不确定性要高得多。虽然 TMS 场主要受灰质和白质电导率的影响,但 tDCS 场还取决于颅骨和头皮电导率。通过所提出的技术实现的复杂系统的全面不确定性分析,在没有极端计算工作量的情况下,无法使用经典方法(如蒙特卡罗抽样)来完成。此外,我们的方法具有直接提供可解释和直观的输出指标的优点,并且易于适应新问题。