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ArticleDiagnostics (Basel, Switzerland)2023

Quantitative Brain MRI Metrics Distinguish Four Different ALS Phenotypes: A Machine Learning Based Study.

Venkateswaran Rajagopalan, Krishna G Chaitanya, Erik P Pioro

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Article in Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7citing papers in PubMed
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Venkateswaran RajagopalanDepartment of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani, Hyderabad Campus, Hyderabad 500078, India.ORCID 0000-0001-9040-0785
Krishna G ChaitanyaDepartment of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani, Hyderabad Campus, Hyderabad 500078, India.
Erik P PioroNeuromuscular Center, Department of Neurology, Neurological Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-0737-6065
Birla Institute of Technology and Science - Hyderabad Campus · INCleveland Clinic · US

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a fatal neurodegenerative disease whose diagnosis depends on the presence of combined lower motor neuron (LMN) and upper motor neuron (UMN) degeneration. LMN degeneration assessment is aided by electromyography, whereas no equivalent exists to assess UMN dysfunction. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is primarily used to exclude conditions that mimic ALS. We have identified four different clinical/radiological phenotypes of ALS patients. We hypothesize that these ALS phenotypes arise from distinct pathologic processes that result in unique MRI signatures. To our knowledge, no machine learning (ML)-based data analyses have been performed to stratify different ALS phenotypes using MRI measures. During routine clinical evaluation, we obtained T1-, T2-, PD-weighted, diffusion tensor (DT) brain MRI of 15 neurological controls and 91 ALS patients (UMN-predominant ALS with corticospinal tract CST) hyperintensity,

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ALS phenotypesmachine learningMRIneural networkRandom Forest

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PMID37174914
PMCPMC10177762
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