Bioengineering Webinar | Multimodal Imaging in Epilepsy
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4th Bioengineering Webinar
Multimodal Imaging in Epilepsy
For drug-resistant patients with focal epilepsies, surgery is currently the best option for seizure control. Successful surgical treatment strongly depends on the precise localization and delineation of the epileptogenic zone (EZ), which must be removed without causing unacceptable postoperative deficits. However, accurate presurgical mapping of the EZ is difficult to achieve, with many patients showing no lesions at all even in high-resolution structural Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). Intracranial electroencephalography is often necessary in these patients for a precise localization of the seizure onset zone. Moreover, there is strong interest in developing advanced techniques for an effective presurgical evaluation. Increasing evidence suggests that the best answer requires a multidisciplinary approach, including MRI, functional MRI (fMRI), Electroencephalography (EEG), Magnetoencephalography (MEG) and nuclear medicine techniques such as Positron Emission Tomography (PET). This webinar will focus on simultaneous EEG/fMRI, which is a noninvasive approach aimed at improving not only presurgical mapping procedures but also our understanding of altered brain function mechanisms in different pathologies. Moreover, this methodology can potentially unveil novel biomarkers for patients with increased risk of sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP).
Date 7 October, 2025
Time: 3:00 pm CEST 9:00 am EDT
Webinar ID: 860 3736 1542
Webinar Secretariat: journal.webinar@mdpi.com
Meet Our Speakers
Dr. Eleonora Maggioni
Department of Electronics Information and Bioengineering, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy;
Eleonora Maggioni is an Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering at Politecnico di Milano and an Affiliated Researcher at the Dept. of Mental Health of the Fondazione Policlinico of Milan, Italy. Her research focuses on the development of methods for integrating neuroimaging, electrophysiological, and neuromodulation techniques—mainly MRI, EEG, ECG, NIRS, TMS, and VR—in the study of mental illnesses. With an H-index of 22, she is author of >90 peer-reviewed publications. She is coordinating research projects aiming at providing innovative digital solutions for studying the neural bases of complex emotions and for supporting diagnosis and clinical decisions in affective and psychotic disorders.
Prof. Gianfranco Vornetti
Department of Biomedical and Neuromotor Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
IRCCS Institute of Neurological Sciences of Bologna, Bologna, Italy;
Gianfranco Vornetti is an associate professor of Neuroradiology at the University of Bologna and a consultant neuroradiologist at the IRCCS Institute of Neurological Sciences of Bologna. His current research focuses on quantitative neuroimaging of neurodegenerative diseases and the integration of multimodal MRI approaches in the assessment of epilepsy surgery candidates.
Dr. Giovanni Sighinolfi
IRCCS Institute of Neurological Sciences of Bologna, Bologna, Italy;
Giovanni Sighinolfi is a PhD and Health Research fellow at the Functional and Molecular Neuroimaging Unit, IRCCS Institute of Neurological Sciences of Bologna, Italy. His research focuses on the development and application of processing pipelines for the analysis of functional and diffusion MR images of the brain in healthy and pathological conditions.
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Neuroimaging Techniques for Central Autonomic System: Methodologies and Applications
Special Issue Editors: Prof. Dr. Antonio Ferretti, Prof. Dr. Mauro Gianni Perrucci
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2026
