Figure 5.

Virtual Resection Implementation. The target nodes for the virtual resection VR are all nodes at two steps or less from the seed, i.e. the seed and its first and second neighbours (panel a). The initial seizure propagation is the fraction of infected nodes at $t_0=50$, $I(t_0)=0.548$ (panel b). A virtual resection of 5 nodes is implemented in the network by setting to 0 all the links with the corresponding nodes, marked in black in panel c. Seizure propagation is now reduced by approximately a factor 2 ($I_{\mathcal{R}}(t_0)=0.280$), and the probability that the seizure reaches regions outside the seed decreases considerably (panel d). This example corresponds to patient 4.