Determining the laterality of the seizure onset zone is challenging in frontal lobe epilepsy (FLE) due to the rapid propagation of epileptic discharges to the contralateral hemisphere. There is hemispheric lateralization of autonomic control, and heart rate is modulated by interactions between the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems. Based on this notion, the laterality of seizure foci in FLE might be determined using heart rate variability (HRV) parameters. We explored preictal markers for differentiating the laterality of seizure foci in FLE using HRV parameters. Twelve patients with FLE (6 right FLE and 6 left FLE) were included in the analyzes. A total of 551 (460 left FLE and 91 right FLE) 1-min epoch electrocardiography data were used for HRV analysis. We found that most HRV parameters differed between the left and right FLE groups. Among the machine learning algorithms applied in this study, the light gradient boosting machine was the most accurate, with an AUC value of 0.983 and a classification accuracy of 0.961. Our findings suggest that HRV parameter-based laterality determination models can be convenient and effective tools in clinical settings. Considering that heart rate can be easily measured in real time with a wearable device, our proposed method can be applied to a closed-loop device as a real-time monitoring tool for determining the side of stimulation.

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