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  • 1
    In: Brain Communications, Oxford University Press (OUP), Vol. 4, No. 2 ( 2022-03-01)
    Abstract: Stroke represents a considerable burden of disease for both men and women. However, a growing body of literature suggests clinically relevant sex differences in the underlying causes, presentations and outcomes of acute ischaemic stroke. In a recent study, we reported sex divergences in lesion topographies: specific to women, acute stroke severity was linked to lesions in the left-hemispheric posterior circulation. We here determined whether these sex-specific brain manifestations also affect long-term outcomes. We relied on 822 acute ischaemic patients [age: 64.7 (15.0) years, 39% women] originating from the multi-centre MRI-GENIE study to model unfavourable outcomes (modified Rankin Scale & gt;2) based on acute neuroimaging data in a Bayesian hierarchical framework. Lesions encompassing bilateral subcortical nuclei and left-lateralized regions in proximity to the insula explained outcomes across men and women (area under the curve = 0.81). A pattern of left-hemispheric posterior circulation brain regions, combining left hippocampus, precuneus, fusiform and lingual gyrus, occipital pole and latero-occipital cortex, showed a substantially higher relevance in explaining functional outcomes in women compared to men [mean difference of Bayesian posterior distributions (men – women) = −0.295 (90% highest posterior density interval = −0.556 to −0.068)]. Once validated in prospective studies, our findings may motivate a sex-specific approach to clinical stroke management and hold the promise of enhancing outcomes on a population level.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    ISSN: 2632-1297
    Language: English
    Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
    Publication Date: 2022
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  • 2
    In: Nature Communications, Springer Science and Business Media LLC, Vol. 12, No. 1 ( 2021-06-02)
    Abstract: Acute ischemic stroke affects men and women differently. In particular, women are often reported to experience higher acute stroke severity than men. We derived a low-dimensional representation of anatomical stroke lesions and designed a Bayesian hierarchical modeling framework tailored to estimate possible sex differences in lesion patterns linked to acute stroke severity (National Institute of Health Stroke Scale). This framework was developed in 555 patients (38% female). Findings were validated in an independent cohort (n = 503, 41% female). Here, we show brain lesions in regions subserving motor and language functions help explain stroke severity in both men and women, however more widespread lesion patterns are relevant in female patients. Higher stroke severity in women, but not men, is associated with left hemisphere lesions in the vicinity of the posterior circulation. Our results suggest there are sex-specific functional cerebral asymmetries that may be important for future investigations of sex-stratified approaches to management of acute ischemic stroke.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    ISSN: 2041-1723
    Language: English
    Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
    Publication Date: 2021
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  • 3
    In: Human Brain Mapping, Wiley, Vol. 44, No. 4 ( 2023-03), p. 1579-1592
    Abstract: This study aimed to investigate the influence of stroke lesions in predefined highly interconnected (rich‐club) brain regions on functional outcome post‐stroke, determine their spatial specificity and explore the effects of biological sex on their relevance. We analyzed MRI data recorded at index stroke and ~3‐months modified Rankin Scale (mRS) data from patients with acute ischemic stroke enrolled in the multisite MRI‐GENIE study. Spatially normalized structural stroke lesions were parcellated into 108 atlas‐defined bilateral (sub)cortical brain regions. Unfavorable outcome (mRS  〉  2) was modeled in a Bayesian logistic regression framework. Effects of individual brain regions were captured as two compound effects for (i) six bilateral rich club and (ii) all further non‐rich club regions. In spatial specificity analyses, we randomized the split into “rich club” and “non‐rich club” regions and compared the effect of the actual rich club regions to the distribution of effects from 1000 combinations of six random regions. In sex‐specific analyses, we introduced an additional hierarchical level in our model structure to compare male and female‐specific rich club effects. A total of 822 patients (age: 64.7[15.0], 39% women) were analyzed. Rich club regions had substantial relevance in explaining unfavorable functional outcome (mean of posterior distribution: 0.08, area under the curve: 0.8). In particular, the rich club‐combination had a higher relevance than 98.4% of random constellations. Rich club regions were substantially more important in explaining long‐term outcome in women than in men. All in all, lesions in rich club regions were associated with increased odds of unfavorable outcome. These effects were spatially specific and more pronounced in women.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    ISSN: 1065-9471 , 1097-0193
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    Language: English
    Publisher: Wiley
    Publication Date: 2023
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    In: Frontiers in Neuroscience, Frontiers Media SA, Vol. 16 ( 2022-8-25)
    Abstract: A substantial number of patients with acute ischemic stroke (AIS) experience multiple acute lesions (MAL). We here aimed to scrutinize MAL in a large radiologically deep-phenotyped cohort. Materials and methods Analyses relied upon imaging and clinical data from the international MRI-GENIE study. Imaging data comprised both Fluid-attenuated inversion recovery (FLAIR) for white matter hyperintensity (WMH) burden estimation and diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) sequences for the assessment of acute stroke lesions. The initial step featured the systematic evaluation of occurrences of MAL within one and several vascular supply territories. Associations between MAL and important imaging and clinical characteristics were subsequently determined. The interaction effect between single and multiple lesion status and lesion volume was estimated by means of Bayesian hierarchical regression modeling for both stroke severity and functional outcome. Results We analyzed 2,466 patients (age = 63.4 ± 14.8, 39% women), 49.7% of which presented with a single lesion. Another 37.4% experienced MAL in a single vascular territory, while 12.9% featured lesions in multiple vascular territories. Within most territories, MAL occurred as frequently as single lesions (ratio ∼1:1). Only the brainstem region comprised fewer patients with MAL (ratio 1:4). Patients with MAL presented with a significantly higher lesion volume and acute NIHSS (7.7 vs. 1.7 ml and 4 vs. 3, p FDR & lt; 0.001). In contrast, patients with a single lesion were characterized by a significantly higher WMH burden (6.1 vs. 5.3 ml, p FDR = 0.048). Functional outcome did not differ significantly between patients with single versus multiple lesions. Bayesian analyses suggested that the association between lesion volume and stroke severity between single and multiple lesions was the same in case of anterior circulation stroke. In case of posterior circulation stroke, lesion volume was linked to a higher NIHSS only among those with MAL. Conclusion Multiple lesions, especially those within one vascular territory, occurred more frequently than previously reported. Overall, multiple lesions were distinctly linked to a higher acute stroke severity, a higher total DWI lesion volume and a lower WMH lesion volume. In posterior circulation stroke, lesion volume was linked to a higher stroke severity in multiple lesions only.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    ISSN: 1662-453X
    Language: Unknown
    Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
    Publication Date: 2022
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  • 5
    In: Frontiers in Neurology, Frontiers Media SA, Vol. 11 ( 2020-6-25)
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    ISSN: 1664-2295
    Language: Unknown
    Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
    Publication Date: 2020
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    In: Frontiers in Neurology, Frontiers Media SA, Vol. 12 ( 2021-9-10)
    Abstract: Objective: To personalize the prognostication of post-stroke outcome using MRI-detected cerebrovascular pathology, we sought to investigate the association between the excessive white matter hyperintensity (WMH) burden unaccounted for by the traditional stroke risk profile of individual patients and their long-term functional outcomes after a stroke. Methods: We included 890 patients who survived after an acute ischemic stroke from the MRI-Genetics Interface Exploration (MRI-GENIE) study, for whom data on vascular risk factors (VRFs), including age, sex, atrial fibrillation, diabetes mellitus, hypertension, coronary artery disease, smoking, prior stroke history, as well as acute stroke severity, 3- to−6-month modified Rankin Scale score (mRS), WMH, and brain volumes, were available. We defined the unaccounted WMH (uWMH) burden via modeling of expected WMH burden based on the VRF profile of each individual patient. The association of uWMH and mRS score was analyzed by linear regression analysis. The odds ratios of patients who achieved full functional independence (mRS & lt; 2) in between trichotomized uWMH burden groups were calculated by pair-wise comparisons. Results: The expected WMH volume was estimated with respect to known VRFs. The uWMH burden was associated with a long-term functional outcome (β = 0.104, p & lt; 0.01). Excessive uWMH burden significantly reduced the odds of achieving full functional independence after a stroke compared to the low and average uWMH burden [OR = 0.4, 95% CI: (0.25, 0.63), p & lt; 0.01 and OR = 0.61, 95% CI: (0.42, 0.87), p & lt; 0.01, respectively]. Conclusion: The excessive amount of uWMH burden unaccounted for by the traditional VRF profile was associated with worse post-stroke functional outcomes. Further studies are needed to evaluate a lifetime brain injury reflected in WMH unrelated to the VRF profile of a patient as an important factor for stroke recovery and a plausible indicator of brain health.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    ISSN: 1664-2295
    Language: Unknown
    Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
    Publication Date: 2021
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  • 7
    In: Stroke, Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), Vol. 48, No. suppl_1 ( 2017-02)
    Abstract: Background: In acute ischemic stroke (AIS), therapeutic decisions are increasingly being based upon the volume of likely-unsalvageable brain tissue, which is often estimated using DWI. Deep learning algorithms, e.g. convolutional neural networks (CNN), have been employed for chronic stroke lesion segmentation. Here we investigate the applicability of CNN for DWI lesion measurement in acute stroke. Methods: 50 AIS patients underwent DWI 〈 12h from last known well. Apparent diffusion coefficient maps, T2WI, and DWI were used as covariates in a 2D CNN (5-fold cross validation). Including convolutional, inception and fully connected dense layers, a CNN of 15 layers was trained using manually outlined DWI lesions. To avoid overfitting, statistical dropout, L1- and L2-regularization and batch-normalization were used. Automatically segmented lesion volumes (ALV) using a 50% risk threshold were compared to the manual lesion volumes (MLV) using Dice similarity index (DSI, a measure of overlap) and Spearman’s correlation coefficient. Subset analysis was performed evaluating results between small ( 〈 10 ml) and large lesions (Wilcoxon rank sums). Results: The figure shows examples of CNN segmentation. The median [IQR] measured lesion volume and DSI were 25 [13-46] mL and 66% [35-75%], respectively. The correlation of MLV with ALV was 86% (P 〈 0.001). 21 subjects (42%) had lesion volumes less than 10 ml. DSI for small lesions (28% [14-46%]) was significantly lower (P 〈 0.001) than large lesions (73% [67-79]%). Correlation of ALV with MLV for small lesions compared to large lesions were 31 and 84 respectively and differed significantly (P=0.001). Discussion: Automatic DWI lesion segmentation for large lesions is feasible using CNN. CNN tended to overestimate the volumes of small lesions. Prior methods have used a priori heuristics or morphometric operations to remove artifacts. CNN methods show promise for “learning” to discriminate artifacts from real lesions.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    ISSN: 0039-2499 , 1524-4628
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    Language: English
    Publisher: Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)
    Publication Date: 2017
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  • 8
    In: Stroke, Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), Vol. 46, No. suppl_1 ( 2015-02)
    Abstract: Background: In acute ischemic stroke (AIS) patients, multi-parametric MRI-based predictive algorithms have shown promise in identifying tissue at risk of infarction, but do not consider the intrinsic variations of normal or pathological tissue. We hypothesized that extending MRI-based algorithms to take into consideration tissue type will improve predictions of tissue outcome. Methods: We retrospectively analyzed AIS patients who received neither revascularization nor experimental interventional treatment, who underwent MRI within 12 h from the time since they were last known well and who had follow-up imaging 〉 4 days. Perfusion- and diffusion-parametric maps were combined to predict tissue outcome using 2 models: 1) a generalized linear model (GLM) trained with data from the whole ipsilateral hemisphere (sGLM), irrespective of tissue type, or 2) an anatomically-weighted GLM (aGLM) that was calculated using a weighted average to combine results from models generated using entire white or gray matter regions only. Both methods were evaluated using jack-knifing and predicted and follow-up regions were compared in terms of accuracy (measured as area under the receiver operator characteristic curve, AUC), Dice similarity index (DSI) and root mean square error (RMSE). Results: Results from 109 patients (65% male, median 68 y IQR [55-77], NIHSS 14 [9-25] ) showed that, compared to sGLM, aGLM’s predictions had higher DSI (0.48 [0.19-0.59], P 〈 0.001), and AUC (0.89 [0.86-0.94], P=0.001) and lower RMSE (0.32 [0.29-0.35] , P 〈 0.001), all demonstrating improved performance. Discussion: We showed that anatomically-weighted algorithms may better capture differences in tissue vulnerability in acute ischemic stroke, contributing to improved MRI-based tissue outcome predictions.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    ISSN: 0039-2499 , 1524-4628
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    Language: English
    Publisher: Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)
    Publication Date: 2015
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