TY - JOUR
T1 - Joint diffusional kurtosis magnetic resonance imaging analysis of white matter and the thalamus to identify subcortical ischemic vascular disease
AU - Tu, Min Chien
AU - Huang, Sheng Min
AU - Hsu, Yen Hsuan
AU - Yang, Jir Jei
AU - Lin, Chien Yuan
AU - Kuo, Li Wei
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2024, The Author(s).
PY - 2024/12
Y1 - 2024/12
N2 - Identifying subcortical ischemic vascular disease (SIVD) in older adults is important but challenging. Growing evidence suggests that diffusional kurtosis imaging (DKI) can detect SIVD-relevant microstructural pathology, and a systematic assessment of the discriminant power of DKI metrics in various brain tissue microstructures is urgently needed. Therefore, the current study aimed to explore the value of DKI and diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) metrics in detecting early-stage SIVD by combining multiple diffusion metrics, analysis strategies, and clinical-radiological constraints. This prospective study compared DKI with diffusivity and macroscopic imaging evaluations across the aging spectrum including SIVD, Alzheimer's disease (AD), and cognitively normal (NC) groups. Using a white matter atlas and segregated thalamus analysis with considerations of the pre-identified macroscopic pathology, the most effective diffusion metrics were selected and then examined using multiple clinical-radiological constraints in a two-group or three-group paradigm. A total of 122 participants (mean age, 74.6 ± 7.38 years, 72 women) including 42 with SIVD, 50 with AD, and 30 NC were evaluated. Fractional anisotropy, mean kurtosis, and radial kurtosis were critical metrics in detecting early-stage SIVD. The optimal selection of diffusion metrics showed 84.4–100% correct classification of the results in a three-group paradigm, with an area under the curve of.909–.987 in a two-group paradigm related to SIVD detection (all P <.001). We therefore concluded that greatly resilient to the effect of pre-identified macroscopic pathology, the combination of DKI/DTI metrics showed preferable performance in identifying early-stage SIVD among adults across the aging spectrum.
AB - Identifying subcortical ischemic vascular disease (SIVD) in older adults is important but challenging. Growing evidence suggests that diffusional kurtosis imaging (DKI) can detect SIVD-relevant microstructural pathology, and a systematic assessment of the discriminant power of DKI metrics in various brain tissue microstructures is urgently needed. Therefore, the current study aimed to explore the value of DKI and diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) metrics in detecting early-stage SIVD by combining multiple diffusion metrics, analysis strategies, and clinical-radiological constraints. This prospective study compared DKI with diffusivity and macroscopic imaging evaluations across the aging spectrum including SIVD, Alzheimer's disease (AD), and cognitively normal (NC) groups. Using a white matter atlas and segregated thalamus analysis with considerations of the pre-identified macroscopic pathology, the most effective diffusion metrics were selected and then examined using multiple clinical-radiological constraints in a two-group or three-group paradigm. A total of 122 participants (mean age, 74.6 ± 7.38 years, 72 women) including 42 with SIVD, 50 with AD, and 30 NC were evaluated. Fractional anisotropy, mean kurtosis, and radial kurtosis were critical metrics in detecting early-stage SIVD. The optimal selection of diffusion metrics showed 84.4–100% correct classification of the results in a three-group paradigm, with an area under the curve of.909–.987 in a two-group paradigm related to SIVD detection (all P <.001). We therefore concluded that greatly resilient to the effect of pre-identified macroscopic pathology, the combination of DKI/DTI metrics showed preferable performance in identifying early-stage SIVD among adults across the aging spectrum.
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U2 - 10.1038/s41598-024-52910-x
DO - 10.1038/s41598-024-52910-x
M3 - Article
C2 - 38297073
AN - SCOPUS:85183849936
SN - 2045-2322
VL - 14
JO - Scientific reports
JF - Scientific reports
IS - 1
M1 - 2570
ER -