Clinically-Informed Preprocessing Improves Stroke Segmentation in Low-Resource Settings
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| author | Rivera, Juampablo E. Heras Oswal, Hitender Ren, Tianyi Pan, Yutong Henry, William Neher, Caitlin M. Kurt, Mehmet |
| author_facet | Rivera, Juampablo E. Heras Oswal, Hitender Ren, Tianyi Pan, Yutong Henry, William Neher, Caitlin M. Kurt, Mehmet |
| contents | Stroke is among the top three causes of death worldwide, and accurate identification of ischemic stroke lesion boundaries from imaging is critical for diagnosis and treatment. The main imaging modalities used include magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), particularly diffusion weighted imaging (DWI), and computed tomography (CT)-based techniques such as non-contrast CT (NCCT), contrast-enhanced CT angiography (CTA), and CT perfusion (CTP). DWI is the gold standard for the identification of lesions but has limited applicability in low-resource settings due to prohibitive costs. CT-based imaging is currently the most practical imaging method in low-resource settings due to low costs and simplified logistics, but lacks the high specificity of MRI-based methods in monitoring ischemic insults. Supervised deep learning methods are the leading solution for automated ischemic stroke lesion segmentation and provide an opportunity to improve diagnostic quality in low-resource settings by incorporating insights from DWI when segmenting from CT. Here, we develop a series of models which use CT images taken upon arrival as inputs to predict follow-up lesion volumes annotated from DWI taken 2-9 days later. Furthermore, we implement clinically motivated preprocessing steps and show that the proposed pipeline results in a 38% improvement in Dice score over 10 folds compared to a nnU-Net model trained with the baseline preprocessing. Finally, we demonstrate that through additional preprocessing of CTA maps to extract vessel segmentations, we further improve our best model by 21% over 5 folds. |
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| spellingShingle | Clinically-Informed Preprocessing Improves Stroke Segmentation in Low-Resource Settings Rivera, Juampablo E. Heras Oswal, Hitender Ren, Tianyi Pan, Yutong Henry, William Neher, Caitlin M. Kurt, Mehmet Image and Video Processing Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Stroke is among the top three causes of death worldwide, and accurate identification of ischemic stroke lesion boundaries from imaging is critical for diagnosis and treatment. The main imaging modalities used include magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), particularly diffusion weighted imaging (DWI), and computed tomography (CT)-based techniques such as non-contrast CT (NCCT), contrast-enhanced CT angiography (CTA), and CT perfusion (CTP). DWI is the gold standard for the identification of lesions but has limited applicability in low-resource settings due to prohibitive costs. CT-based imaging is currently the most practical imaging method in low-resource settings due to low costs and simplified logistics, but lacks the high specificity of MRI-based methods in monitoring ischemic insults. Supervised deep learning methods are the leading solution for automated ischemic stroke lesion segmentation and provide an opportunity to improve diagnostic quality in low-resource settings by incorporating insights from DWI when segmenting from CT. Here, we develop a series of models which use CT images taken upon arrival as inputs to predict follow-up lesion volumes annotated from DWI taken 2-9 days later. Furthermore, we implement clinically motivated preprocessing steps and show that the proposed pipeline results in a 38% improvement in Dice score over 10 folds compared to a nnU-Net model trained with the baseline preprocessing. Finally, we demonstrate that through additional preprocessing of CTA maps to extract vessel segmentations, we further improve our best model by 21% over 5 folds. |
| title | Clinically-Informed Preprocessing Improves Stroke Segmentation in Low-Resource Settings |
| topic | Image and Video Processing Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16004 |