Editor’s Choice The authors automated the identification of enlarged perivascular spaces in brain MR images using a custom quantitative program designed with Matlab. They quantified the densities of enlarged perivascular spaces for patients with mild cognitive impairment (n=14) and age-matched
Kermany, D. S., Goldbaum, M., Cai, W., Valentim, C. C. S., Liang, H., Baxter, S. L., … Zhang, K. (2018). Identifying Medical Diagnoses and Treatable Diseases by Image-Based Deep Learning. Cell, 172(5), 1122–1124.e9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2018.02.010 Ting, D. S. W.,
Fellows’ Journal Club The authors performed a retrospective review of 48 patients with cerebral metastases from June 2016 to October 2017. Brain MRIs included gadolinium-enhanced T1-weighted IR-FSPGR-BRAVO and CUBE, with subsequent generation of nonoverlapping CUBE MIP and overlapping CUBE MIP.
Editor’s Choice This study evaluates a convolutional neural network optimized for the detection and quantification of intraparenchymal, epidural/subdural, and subarachnoid hemorrhages on noncontrast CT with a 10,159-examination training cohort (512,598 images; 901/8.1% hemorrhages) and an 862-examination test cohort (23,668 images;
Fellows’ Journal Club Sixty-six patients with brain tumors were evaluated with resting-state fMRI using seed-based analysis of hand and orofacial motor regions. Rates of supplementary motor area localization were compared with those in healthy controls and with localization results by
Burkhardt BW, Simgen A, Wagenpfeil G, Reith W, Oertel JM. Adjacent Segment Degeneration After Anterior Cervical Discectomy and Fusion With an Autologous Iliac Crest Graft: A Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study of 59 Patients With a Mean Follow-up of 27 Years.
Lehman, V. T., Brinjikji, W., Mossa-Basha, M., Lanzino, G., Rabinstein, A. A., Kallmes, D. F., & Huston, J. (2018). Conventional and high-resolution vessel wall MRI of intracranial aneurysms: current concepts and new horizons. Journal of Neurosurgery, 128(4), 969–981. https://doi.org/10.3171/2016.12.JNS162262 3D
Meybodi AT, Deng H, Benet A, Lawton MT. Intracranial-Intracranial Bypass: Rationale, Indications, and Technical Considerations. Contemp Neurosurg. 2018;40(4). This review article outlines the indications for a cerebral revascularization procedure and patient selection considerations for cerebral bypass. The main indication to
Nam K-W, Kim CK, Kim TJ, et al. FLAIR vascular hyperintensities predict early ischemic recurrence in TIA. Neurology. 2018;90(9):e738-e744. doi:10.1212/WNL.0000000000005034. The authors set out to answer the question as to whether vascular hyperintensities on FLAIR images were associated with early
Wen, P. Y., & Huse, J. T. (2017). 2016 World Health Organization Classification of Central Nervous System Tumors. Continuum (Minneapolis, Minn.), 23(6, Neuro–oncology), 1531–1547. https://doi.org/10.1212/CON.0000000000000536 The 2016 WHO update introduces important changes to the classification of gliomas, the most common
