Sunnybrook Research Institute

St. Michael's Hospital.

Providence St. Joseph's and St. Michael's Healthcare

Marco Garavaglia

Simon James Graham

Tom Andreas Schweizer

Fred Tam

Sunit Das

Melanie Anne Morrison

Systems and methods are provided for performing an intraoperative assessment of brain function based on input that is obtained using a touch panel device, in response to a task, and in the presence of an intervention that is applied to a selected region of the brain. The intervention may be stimulation of the selected region of the brain, such as direct cortical stimulation. In some embodiments, a measure is determined based on the input received from the touch panel. The measure may be a performance measure, related to the performance of the task, and/or a functional measure, associated with an inferred function of the selected region of the brain. In some embodiments, an image of the brain that is registered to an intraoperative reference frame may be annotated or otherwise modified within the selected region based on the measure.

System and method for intraoperative characterization of brain function using input from a touch panel device

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Toronto, Canada

Marco Garavaglia