More information: Xiaodong Zhang et al, Focal cortical dysplasia lesion segmentation using multiscale transformer, Insights into Imaging (2024). DOI: 10.1186/s13244-024-01803-8.

Focal cortical dysplasia (FCD) type 2 is a congenital malformation of the cerebral cortex that is often associated with difficult-to-treat epilepsy. In the affected areas, nerve cells and their ...

Bonn, April 16, 2025 - Focal cortical dysplasia (FCD) type 2 is a congenital malformation of the cerebral cortex that is often associated with difficult-to-treat epilepsy. In the affected areas ...

Focal cortical dysplasias are a well-recognized cause of medically intractable seizures. The clinical relevance of certain subgroups of the International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE ...

Focal cortical dysplasia is a malformation of the cerebral cortex associated with one of the most severe types of epilepsy. Treatment is difficult owing to a lack of effective drugs or access to ...

Positive predictive value in detecting epileptogenic focal cortical dysplasia was higher with MELD Graph compared with the existing baseline algorithm. HealthDay News — A graph neural network ...

AI-powered tool improves the detection of focal cortical dysplasia. Download PDF Copy; Reviewed. King's College London Feb 24 2025.

50 years ago back in 1971, David C. Taylor and colleagues from England reported on a small series of surgical epilepsy cases proposing a new type of tissue lesion as a cause of difficult-to-treat ...

LOS ANGELES — An open-source artificial intelligence (AI) module can help identify epileptic lesions on MRI missed by human reviewers, including both focal cortical dysplasia (FCD) and ...

Molecular Genetics of the Cortical Dysplasia–Focal Epilepsy Syndrome. In Panel A, location scores were maximized on chromosome 7q36, which provided substantial evidence of identity by descent ...

However, the majority of specimens in Taylor´s series did contain balloon cells, i.e. focal cortical dysplasia Type IIB, representing the most common correlate of “FCD” or “Taylor type dysplasia” as ...