scholarly journals PC3 - 190 Impact of Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging on Clinical Decision Making and Outcomes in Patients with Low Grade Gliomas

Author(s):  
E. Kosteniuk ◽  
J.C. Lau ◽  
J.F. Megyesi

This study aims to evaluate the impact of preoperative functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) on low grade glioma (LGG) patients’ outcomes and surgical planning. Methods In this retrospective matched cohort study of a single surgeon’s patients, we are comparing two groups of LGG patients (WHO grade II) based on exposure to fMRI. Sixteen LGG patients who underwent fMRI were selected, and 32 control (non-fMRI exposed) patients are being selected through propensity score matching from a pool of 764 brain tumour patients. To assess the impact of fMRI data on clinicians’ decision making process, neurosurgeons within a single centre are completing questionnaires regarding treatment options for each LGG fMRI patient based on clinical data and structural imaging before and after fMRI. Results Within the group of 16 LGG patients who have undergone fMRI studies over a 12-year period, most patients presented with seizures (81 percent), and most lesions were left-sided (81 percent) and frontal (75 percent). Patients underwent either craniotomy (50 percent), stereotactic biopsy (25 percent) or nonsurgically management (25 percent). In surgical patients, between presurgical assessment and eight week post-surgical follow-up, mean modified Rankin scale improved from 1.80 (sd 0.79) to 1.50 (sd 0.97). In our cohort, 5-year mortality was 12.5 percent (mean follow-up duration 5.46 years). Conclusions Data analysis is ongoing with plans to compare relevant patient demographics and outcomes, and to analyse questionnaires to elucidate how surgeons incorporate fMRI data into their therapeutic approach.

Author(s):  
SE Kosteniuk ◽  
JC Lau ◽  
JF Megyesi

Background: This study aims to evaluate the impact of pre-operative functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) on low grade glioma (LGG) patients’ outcomes. Methods: In this retrospective matched cohort study (N =48) of a single surgeon’s patients, we are comparing two groups of LGG patients (WHO grade II) based on exposure to fMRI. A 1:2 propensity score match from a pool of 764 brain tumour patients was performed. Results: Within the group of 16 LGG patients who have undergone fMRI studies over a 12-year period, mean age was 40 years, and most presented with seizures (81%). Most lesions were left-sided (81%), and the lobes most commonly involved were frontal (75%) and temporal (31%). Patients underwent either craniotomy (50%), stereotactic biopsy (25%) or nonsurgically management (25%). In surgical patients, between presurgical assessment and eight week post-surgical follow-up, mean modified Rankin scale improved from 1.80±0.79 to 1.50±0.97. In our cohort, 5-year mortality was 12.5% (patients followed for a mean duration of 5.46 years). Conclusions: Data analysis is ongoing with plans to compare relevant demographics and outcomes via 1:2 propensity score matching of LGG patients who underwent fMRI against a control cohort.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (13) ◽  
pp. 6216
Author(s):  
Aikaterini S. Karampasi ◽  
Antonis D. Savva ◽  
Vasileios Ch. Korfiatis ◽  
Ioannis Kakkos ◽  
George K. Matsopoulos

Effective detection of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a complicated procedure, due to the hundreds of parameters suggested to be implicated in its etiology. As such, machine learning methods have been consistently applied to facilitate diagnosis, although the scarcity of potent autism-related biomarkers is a bottleneck. More importantly, the variability of the imported attributes among different sites (e.g., acquisition parameters) and different individuals (e.g., demographics, movement, etc.) pose additional challenges, eluding adequate generalization and universal modeling. The present study focuses on a data-driven approach for the identification of efficacious biomarkers for the classification between typically developed (TD) and ASD individuals utilizing functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data on the default mode network (DMN) and non-physiological parameters. From the fMRI data, static and dynamic connectivity were calculated and fed to a feature selection and classification framework along with the demographic, acquisition and motion information to obtain the most prominent features in regard to autism discrimination. The acquired results provided high classification accuracy of 76.63%, while revealing static and dynamic connectivity as the most prominent indicators. Subsequent analysis illustrated the bilateral parahippocampal gyrus, right precuneus, midline frontal, and paracingulate as the most significant brain regions, in addition to an overall connectivity increment.


Author(s):  
Nicole A. Lazar

The analysis of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data poses many statistical challenges. The data are massive, noisy, and have a complicated spatial and temporal correlation structure. This chapter introduces the basics of fMRI data collection and surveys common approaches for data analysis.


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