Publications by authors named "T Tourdias"

Cerebral microbleeds (CMB) represent a feature of cerebral small vessel disease (cSVD), a prominent vascular contributor to age-related cognitive decline, dementia, and stroke. They are visible as spherical hypointense signals on T2*- or susceptibility-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) sequences. An increasing number of automated CMB detection methods being proposed are based on supervised deep learning (DL).

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Background: Currently, there are no available recommendations or guidelines on how to perform MRI monitoring in the management of neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder (NMOSD) and myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein antibody-associated disease (MOGAD). The issue is to determine a valuable MRI monitoring protocol to be applied in the management of NMOSD and MOGAD, as previously proposed for the monitoring of multiple sclerosis.

Objectives: The objectives of this work are to establish proposals for a standardized and feasible MRI acquisition protocol, and to propose control time points for systematic MRI monitoring in the management of NMOSD and MOGAD.

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  • This study evaluates how effective deep-learning models, specifically a 3D U-Net network, are at quickly generating disconnectomes to predict neuropsychological outcomes in stroke patients one year post-stroke.
  • The model was trained on 1333 synthetic lesions and then applied to 1333 actual stroke lesions, leading to the creation of deep-disconnectomes much faster than existing methods—approximately 720 times quicker.
  • The findings show that these deep-disconnectomes have an impressive predictive accuracy of 85.2% for neuropsychological scores, marking a significant improvement over traditional disconnectome approaches and potentially enhancing stroke survivors' prognostic assessments.
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Stroke remains a leading cause of mortality and long-term disability worldwide, with variable recovery trajectories posing substantial challenges in anticipating post-event care and rehabilitation planning. In response, we established the NeuralCup consortium to address these challenges by benchmarking predictive models of stroke outcome through a collaborative, data-driven approach. This study presents the findings of 15 participating teams worldwide who used a comprehensive dataset including clinical and imaging data, to identify and compare predictors of motor, cognitive, and emotional outcomes one-year post-stroke.

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Background: While advances in endovascular thrombectomy (EVT) have led to high reperfusion rates, most patients treated with EVT do not avoid disability. Post-reperfusion hemorrhagic transformation (HT) is a potential target for improving outcomes. This study examined pretreatment blood-brain barrier (BBB) disruption in tissue that would subsequently become part of the final infarct to evaluate its role in post-EVT HT.

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