KEYWORDS: Neuroimaging, Computed tomography, Genetics, Brain, Medicine, Molybdenum, Imaging systems, Picture Archiving and Communication System, Databases, Control systems
Understanding of stroke etiology and its genetic pathways is critical for planning, implementation, and evaluation of stroke patient treatments. However, this knowledge discovery requires phenotyping stroke and integration of multiple demographic, clinical, genetic and imaging phynotypes by developing and running sophisticated processing pipelines at massive scale. The Stroke Neuroimaging Phenotype Repository (SNIPR) was developed in 2018 as a large multi-center centralized imaging repository of clinical CT and MRI scans from stroke patients worldwide, based on the Extensible Neuroimaging Archive Toolkit (XNAT). The aims of this repository are to: (i) Create a central retrospective repository to host and provide secure access to data from anonymized acute stroke patients with serial clinical imaging; (ii) Facilitate integration of independent stroke phenotypic studies via data aggregation techniques; and (iii) Expedite the development of containerized deep learning pipelines to perform large-scale analysis of complications after stroke. Currently, SNIPR hosts 8 projects, 1877 subjects and 5281 imaging sessions from Washington University Medical Center’s clinical image archive as well as contributions from collaborators in different countries, including US, Finland, Poland, and Spain. Moreover, we have used XNAT’s standard XML Schema extension mechanism to create data type extensions to support stroke phenotypic studies, including clinical phenotypes like NIHSS and imaging phenotypes like infarct and Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) volume. We have developed deep learning pipelines to facilitate image processing and analysis and deployed these pipelines through XNAT’s container service. The container service enables these pipelines to execute at large scale with Docker Swarm on an attached compute cluster. Our pipelines include a scan-type classifier which includes a convolutional neural network (CNN) approach and a natural language processing approach to automatically categorize uploaded CT sequences into defined classes to facilitate selection for further analysis. We deployed this containerized classifier within a broader pipeline to facilitate big data analysis of cerebral edema after stroke, and we got 99.4 % test accuracy on 10000 scans. SNIPR enables the developed automatic pipelines to use this automatic scan selection, develop and validate imaging phenotypes and couple them with clinical and genetic data with the overarching aim of enabling a broad understanding of stroke progression and outcomes.
Magnetic resonance tagging is a technique for measuring heart deformations through creation of a stripe grid pattern on cardiac images. Typically, sets of tag surfaces are encoded in the tissue appearing as dark lines on 2D images. In this paper, we present a Maximum A Posteriori (MAP) framework for detecting tag lines using a Markov random field defined on the lattice generated by uniform sampling of B-spline models in 3D and 4D. In the 3D case, MAP estimation is cast for finding the optimal solid for the tag features present in the current image set given an initial solid from the previous frame. The method also allows the parameters of the solid model including the number of knots and the spline order to be adjusted within the same framework. Fitting can start with a solid with less knots and lower spline order, and proceed to one with more knots and/or higher order so as to achieve more accuracy. The optimal solids obtained from 3D tracking for all the frames in the image sequence are considered a 4D B-spline model with linear time interpolation. The framework is then applied to arrive at a 4D B-spline model with higher order time interpolation. The method has been validated with 5 sets of in-vivo data, comprised of a sum total of 882 short-axis (SA) and long-axis (LA) images.
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