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ArticleJournal of cerebral blood flow and metabolism : official journal of the International Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism2022

Machine learning based analysis of stroke lesions on mouse tissue sections.

Gerasimos Damigos, Evangelia I Zacharaki, Nefeli Zerva, Angelos Pavlopoulos, Konstantina Chatzikyrkou, Argyro Koumenti, Konstantinos Moustakas, Constantinos Pantos, Iordanis Mourouzis, Athanasios Lourbopoulos

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Article in Journal of cerebral blood flow and metabolism : official journal of the International Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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Gerasimos DamigosDepartment of Pharmacology, Medical School of Athens, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
Evangelia I ZacharakiDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Patras, Patras, Greece.ORCID 0000-0001-8228-0437
Nefeli ZervaDepartment of Pharmacology, Medical School of Athens, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
Angelos PavlopoulosDepartment of Pharmacology, Medical School of Athens, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
Konstantina ChatzikyrkouDepartment of Pharmacology, Medical School of Athens, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
Argyro KoumentiDepartment of Pharmacology, Medical School of Athens, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0001-9567-6502
Konstantinos MoustakasDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Patras, Patras, Greece.
Constantinos PantosDepartment of Pharmacology, Medical School of Athens, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
Iordanis MourouzisDepartment of Pharmacology, Medical School of Athens, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
Athanasios LourbopoulosDepartment of Pharmacology, Medical School of Athens, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens · GRUniversity of Patras · GR

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Abstract

An unbiased, automated and reliable method for analysis of brain lesions in tissue after ischemic stroke is missing. Manual infarct volumetry or by threshold-based semi-automated approaches is laborious, and biased to human error or biased by many false -positive and -negative data, respectively. Thereby, we developed a novel machine learning, atlas-based method for fully automated stroke analysis in mouse brain slices stained with 2% Triphenyltetrazolium-chloride (2% TTC), named "StrokeAnalyst", which runs on a user-friendly graphical interface. StrokeAnalyst registers subject images on a common spatial domain (a novel mouse TTC- brain atlas of 80 average mathematical images), calculates pixel-based, tissue-intensity statistics (z-scores), applies outlier-detection and machine learning (Random-Forest) models to increase accuracy of lesion detection, and produces volumetry data and detailed neuroanatomical information per lesion. We validated StrokeAnalyst in two separate experimental sets using the filament stroke model. StrokeAnalyst detects stroke lesions in a rater-independent and reproducible way, correctly detects hemispheric volumes even in presence of post-stroke edema and significantly minimizes false-positive errors compared to threshold-based approaches (false-positive rate 1.2-2.3%, p < 0.05). It can process scanner-acquired, and even smartphone-captured or pdf-retrieved images. Overall, StrokeAnalyst surpasses all previous TTC-volumetry approaches and increases quality, reproducibility and reliability of stroke detection in relevant preclinical models.

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BrainStrokeAnimalsMachine LearningMiceReproducibility of Resultsautomated infarct volumetrylesion analysismachine learningMouse strokeneuroanatomical mappingTTC brain atlas

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PMID35209753
PMCPMC9274860
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