Automated detection of early signs of irreversible ischemic change on CTA source images in patients with large vessel occlusion

Adrian Mak, Charles C Matouk, Emily W Avery, Jonas Behland, Stefan P Haider, Dietmar Frey, Vince I Madai, Peter Vajkoczy, Christoph J Griessenauer, Ramin Zand, Philipp Hendrix, Vida Abedi, Pina C Sanelli, Guido J Falcone, Nils Petersen, Lauren H Sansing, Kevin N Sheth, Seyedmehdi Payabvash and Ajay Malhotra

PLOS ONE, 2024, vol. 19, issue 6, 1-12

Abstract: Purpose: To create and validate an automated pipeline for detection of early signs of irreversible ischemic change from admission CTA in patients with large vessel occlusion (LVO) stroke. Methods: We retrospectively included 368 patients for training and 143 for external validation. All patients had anterior circulation LVO stroke, endovascular therapy with successful reperfusion, and follow-up diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI). We devised a pipeline to automatically segment Alberta Stroke Program Early CT Score (ASPECTS) regions and extracted their relative Hounsfield unit (rHU) values. We determined the optimal rHU cut points for prediction of final infarction in each ASPECT region, performed 10-fold cross-validation in the training set, and measured the performance via external validation in patients from another institute. We compared the model with an expert neuroradiologist for prediction of final infarct volume and poor functional outcome. Results: We achieved a mean area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC), accuracy, sensitivity, and specificity of 0.69±0.13, 0.69±0.09, 0.61±0.23, and 0.72±0.11 across all regions and folds in cross-validation. In the external validation cohort, we achieved a median [interquartile] AUC, accuracy, sensitivity, and specificity of 0.71 [0.68–0.72], 0.70 [0.68–0.73], 0.55 [0.50–0.63], and 0.74 [0.73–0.77], respectively. The rHU-based ASPECTS showed significant correlation with DWI-based ASPECTS (rS = 0.39, p

Date: 2024
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