Abstract

Acute brainstem infarctions can lead to serious functional impairments. We aimed to predict functional outcomes in patients with acute brainstem infarction using deep neuroimaging features extracted by convolutional neural networks (CNNs). This nationwide multicenter stroke registry study included 1482 patients with acute brainstem infarction. We applied CNNs to automatically extract deep neuroimaging features from diffusion-weighted imaging. Deep learning models based on clinical features, laboratory features, conventional imaging features (infarct volume, number of infarctions), and deep neuroimaging features were trained to predict functional outcomes at 3months poststroke. Unfavorable outcome was defined as modified Rankin Scale score of 3 or higher at 3months. The models were evaluated by comparing the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC). A model based solely on 14 deep neuroimaging features from CNNs achieved an extremely high AUC of 0.975 (95% confidence interval [CI] = 0.934-0.997) and significantly outperformed the model combining clinical, laboratory, and conventional imaging features (0.772, 95% CI = 0.691-0.847, p<0.001) in prediction of functional outcomes. The deep neuroimaging model also demonstrated significant improvement over traditional prognostic scores. In an interpretability analysis, the deep neuroimaging features displayed a significant correlation with age, National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale score, infarct volume, and inflammation factors. Deep learning models can successfully extract objective neuroimaging features from the routine radiological data in an automatic manner and aid in predicting the functional outcomes in patients with brainstem infarction at 3months with very high accuracy.

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