Texture analysis of magnetic resonance images of patients with juvenile myoclonic epilepsy.

Background/purpose: Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy (JME) is the most frequent subsyndrome of the idiopathic generalized epilepsies, and experimental investigations support that the thalamus is a key structure in the mechanisms of JME. Texture analysis (TA) is an image processing technique which can be used to characterize images such as MRI.

Objective: The goal of this work was to investigate the thalamus of patients with JME using TA, a quantitative neuroimaging technique.