Predicting stroke outcome using DCE-CT measured blood velocity

Jaap Oosterbroek; Edwin Bennink; Jan Willem Dankbaar M.D.; Alexander D. Horsch M.D.; Max A. Viergever; Birgitta K. Velthuis M.D.; Hugo W. A. M. de Jong

doi:10.1117/12.2082007

17 March 2015 Predicting stroke outcome using DCE-CT measured blood velocity

Jaap Oosterbroek, Edwin Bennink, Jan Willem Dankbaar M.D., Alexander D. Horsch M.D., Max A. Viergever, Birgitta K. Velthuis M.D., Hugo W. A. M. de Jong

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Proceedings Volume 9417, Medical Imaging 2015: Biomedical Applications in Molecular, Structural, and Functional Imaging; 94170I (2015) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2082007
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2015, Orlando, Florida, United States

Abstract

CT plays an important role in the diagnosis of acute stroke patients. Dynamic contrast enhanced CT (DCE-CT) can estimate local tissue perfusion and extent of ischemia. However, hemodynamic information of the large intracranial vessels may also be obtained from DCE-CT data and may contain valuable diagnostic information. We describe a novel method to estimate intravascular blood velocity (IBV) in large cerebral vessels using DCE-CT data, which may be useful to help predict stroke outcome. DCE-CT scans from 34 patients with isolated M1 occlusions were included from a large prospective multi-center cohort study of patients with acute ischemic stroke. Gaussians fitted to the intravascular data yielded the time-to-peak (TTP) and cerebral-blood-volume (CBV). IBV was computed by taking the inverse of the TTP gradient magnitude. Voxels with a CBV of at least 10% of the CBV found in the arterial input function were considered part of a vessel. Mid-sagittal planes were drawn manually and averages of the IBV over all vessel-voxels (arterial and venous) were computed for each hemisphere. Mean-hemisphere IBV differences, mean-hemisphere TTP differences, and hemisphere vessel volume differences were used to differentiate between patients with good and bad outcome (modified Rankin Scale score <3 versus ≥3 at 90 days) using ROC analysis. AUCs from the ROC for IBV, TTP, and vessel volume were 0.80, 0.67 and 0.62 respectively. In conclusion, IBV was found to be a better predictor of patient outcome than the parameters used to compute it and may be a promising new parameter for stroke outcome prediction.

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Jaap Oosterbroek, Edwin Bennink, Jan Willem Dankbaar M.D., Alexander D. Horsch M.D., Max A. Viergever, Birgitta K. Velthuis M.D., and Hugo W. A. M. de Jong "Predicting stroke outcome using DCE-CT measured blood velocity", Proc. SPIE 9417, Medical Imaging 2015: Biomedical Applications in Molecular, Structural, and Functional Imaging, 94170I (17 March 2015); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2082007

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Velocity measurements

Blood

Targeting Task Performance metric

Arteries

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Computed tomography

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