Inter-Rater Reliability of Collateral Status Assessment Based on CT Angiography: A Retrospective Study of Middle Cerebral Artery Ischaemic Stroke.

The importance of assessing the collateral status (CS) in patients with ischaemic stroke (IS) has repeatedly been emphasised in clinical guidelines. Various publications offer qualitative or semiquantitative scales with gradations corresponding to the different extents of the collaterals, visualised mostly on the basis of CTA images. However, information on their inter-rater reliability is limited.

Milk Allergen Micro-Array (MAMA) for Refined Detection of Cow's-Milk-Specific IgE Sensitization.

Background: Immunoglobulin-E(IgE)-mediated hypersensitivity to cow's milk allergens is a frequent cause of severe and life-threatening anaphylactic reactions. Besides case histories and controlled food challenges, the detection of the IgE antibodies specific to cow's milk allergens is important for the diagnosis of cow-milk-specific IgE sensitization. Cow´s milk allergen molecules provide useful information for the refined detection of cow-milk-specific IgE sensitization.

Application of Radiomics in Vesselness Analysis of CT Angiography Images of Stroke Patients.

Development of vascular collaterals in a lesion area is one of the key factors that determine not only the choice of treatment for ischemic stroke (IS) patients, but also outcome and therapy effectiveness. The main method for examining the vessels' ramification is CT angiography (CTA). CTA analysis may be improved by incorporating filters designed to extract more features about vessels and quantify their level of development.

A Platform for Collection and Analysis of Image Data on Stroke.

Identifying imaging biomarkers (IBs) of stroke remains a priority in neurodiagnostics. There is a number of different methods for image analysis and learning rules applicable in this field, but all of them require large arrays of DICOM images and clinical data. In order to amass such dataset,we havedesigneda platform for systematic collection of clinical data and medical images in different modalities.

Virtual Planning of Extra-Intracranial Bypass with Numerical Investigation of Hemodynamics.

Planning of bypass surgery for patients with complex cerebral aneurysms is a very complicated task. It is important to take into consideration personal anatomy and hemodynamics and make additional investigations, but unfortunately, they don't give a guarantee of good postoperative results. Recent medical imaging and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) can be helpful for the prediction of effectiveness of selected surgical technique.

CFD Modelling of Local Hemodynamics in Intracranial Aneurysms Harboring Arterial Branches.

The main cause of non-traumatic subarachnoid haemorrhage is an intracranial aneurysm's rupture. The choice of treatment approach is exceptionally difficult in cases of aneurysms with additional branches on the aneurysm's dome or neck. The impact of the arterial branches on local hemodynamics is still unclear and controversial question.