Does F-18 FDG-PET substantially alter the surgical decision-making in drug-resistant partial epilepsy?

2015 ◽  
Vol 51 ◽  
pp. 133-139 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ramshekhar N. Menon ◽  
Ashalatha Radhakrishnan ◽  
Ramanathapuram Parameswaran ◽  
Bejoy Thomas ◽  
Chandrashekharan Kesavadas ◽  
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2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthime FLAUS ◽  
Charles MELLERIO ◽  
Sebastian RODRIGO ◽  
Vincent BRULON ◽  
Vincent LEBON ◽  
...  

Abstract Purpose: Hybrid PET/MR is a promising tool in focal drug-resistant epilepsy, however the additional value for the detection of epileptogenic lesions and surgical decision-making remains to be established.Methods: We retrospectively compared 18F-FDG PET/MR images with those obtained by a previous 18F-FDG PET co-registered with MRI (PET+MR) in 25 consecutive patients (16 females, 13-60 year-old) investigated for focal drug-resistant epilepsy. Visual analysis was performed by two readers blinded from imaging modalities, asked to assess the technical characteristics (co-registration, quality of images), confidence in results, location of PET abnormalities and presence of a structural lesion on MRI. The clinical impact on surgical strategy and outcome was assessed independently.Results: The location of epilepsy was temporal in 9 patients and extra-temporal in 16 others. MRI was initially considered negative in 21 of them. PET alone demonstrated metabolic abnormalities in 19 cases (76%), and the co-registration with MRI allowed the detection of 4 additional structural lesions. PET/MR was considered better performing than PET+MR in 56% of patients. The increase in sensitivity was 13% and new structural lesions (mainly focal cortical dysplasias) were detected in 6 patients (24%). Change of surgical decision-making was substantial for 40% of patients, consisting in avoiding invasive monitoring in 6 patients and modifying the planning in 4 others. Seizure-free outcome was obtained in 13/14 patients who underwent a cortical resection.Conclusion: Hybrid PET/MR improves the detection of epileptogenic lesions, allowing to optimize the presurgical work-up and to increase the proportion of successful surgery even in the more complex cases.


2012 ◽  
Vol 123 (3) ◽  
pp. 463-470 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ajith Cherian ◽  
Ashalatha Radhakrishnan ◽  
Sajeesh Parameswaran ◽  
Raviprasad Varma ◽  
Kurupath Radhakrishnan

2011 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 293-297 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aaron F. Struck ◽  
Lance T. Hall ◽  
John M. Floberg ◽  
Scott B. Perlman ◽  
Douglas A. Dulli

PLoS ONE ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. e0133690 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maarten C. J. Anderegg ◽  
Elisabeth J. de Groof ◽  
Suzanne S. Gisbertz ◽  
Roel J. Bennink ◽  
Sjoerd M. Lagarde ◽  
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Author(s):  
Tuhina Govil-Dalela ◽  
Ajay Kumar ◽  
Praneetha Konka ◽  
Harry T Chugani

Background: To assess the role of 2-deoxy-2(18F)-fluoro-D-glucose positron emission tomography (FDG-PET) scans in the comprehensive evaluation and surgical decision-making in patients with schizencephaly. Methods: We evaluated 11 patients (8M) with schizencephaly (mean follow-up: 4.5 years), including detailed clinical, MRI, FDG-PET, EEG, surgical and neuropathology data. Results: Eight patients had unilateral and three had bilateral clefts on MRI. Mean age at seizure onset was 20 months, with seizure being frequent in 10 and rare in one. Multiple seizure types were noted, with complex partial seizures being the most common (n=8) followed by infantile spasms (n=6). FDG-PET showed larger area of involvement than MRI in all the patients which corresponded better with the electrophysiological changes. Five patients (with unilateral disease on MRI) underwent epilepsy surgery (4 hemispherectomy and 1 multilobar resection). Two patients with focal defect on MRI underwent hemispherectomy due to larger area of abnormality revealed by FDG-PET.  One patient was excluded from the surgery due to bilateral abnormalities on FDG PET. Six patients (4 with surgery) were seizure-free at last follow-up (average seizure-free duration: 70 months). One patient who underwent hemispherectomy due to apparently unilateral disease on both video-EEG and MRI but having bilateral abnormality on PET continued to have seizures. ACTH treatment had only a brief (1 month to 1 year) or no response in the six infantile spasms patients. Conclusions: FDG-PET typically shows a much larger area of involvement than MRI thus supplementing MRI in defining the full extent of malformation and assessing the functional integrity of the contralateral hemisphere. FDG-PET may prove to be a useful tool to aid in surgical decision-making and predicting surgical outcome, as patients with contralateral abnormality on FDG-PET may have poor surgical outcomes. When the malformation is unilateral with an intact contralateral hemisphere, surgery (usually hemispherectomy) may be curative of the epilepsy.


2007 ◽  
Vol 177 (4S) ◽  
pp. 405-405
Author(s):  
Suman Chatterjee ◽  
Jonathon Ng ◽  
Edward D. Matsumoto

2008 ◽  
Vol 56 (S 1) ◽  
Author(s):  
B Osswald ◽  
U Tochtermann ◽  
S Keller ◽  
D Badowski-Zyla ◽  
V Gegouskov ◽  
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2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (s1) ◽  
pp. 60-61
Author(s):  
Kadie Clancy ◽  
Esmaeel Dadashzadeh ◽  
Christof Kaltenmeier ◽  
JB Moses ◽  
Shandong Wu

OBJECTIVES/SPECIFIC AIMS: This retrospective study aims to create and train machine learning models using a radiomic-based feature extraction method for two classification tasks: benign vs. pathologic PI and operation of benefit vs. operation not needed. The long-term goal of our study is to build a computerized model that incorporates both radiomic features and critical non-imaging clinical factors to improve current surgical decision-making when managing PI patients. METHODS/STUDY POPULATION: Searched radiology reports from 2010-2012 via the UPMC MARS Database for reports containing the term “pneumatosis” (subsequently accounting for negations and age restrictions). Our inclusion criteria included: patient age 18 or older, clinical data available at time of CT diagnosis, and PI visualized on manual review of imaging. Cases with intra-abdominal free air were excluded. Collected CT imaging data and an additional 149 clinical data elements per patient for a total of 75 PI cases. Data collection of an additional 225 patients is ongoing. We trained models for two clinically-relevant prediction tasks. The first (referred to as prediction task 1) classifies between benign and pathologic PI. Benign PI is defined as either lack of intraoperative visualization of transmural intestinal necrosis or successful non-operative management until discharge. Pathologic PI is defined as either intraoperative visualization of transmural PI or withdrawal of care and subsequent death during hospitalization. The distribution of data samples for prediction task 1 is 47 benign cases and 38 pathologic cases. The second (referred to as prediction task 2) classifies between whether the patient benefitted from an operation or not. “Operation of benefit” is defined as patients with PI, be it transmural or simply mucosal, who benefited from an operation. “Operation not needed” is defined as patients who were safely discharged without an operation or patients who had an operation, but nothing was found. The distribution of data samples for prediction task 2 is 37 operation not needed cases and 38 operation of benefit cases. An experienced surgical resident from UPMC manually segmented 3D PI ROIs from the CT scans (5 mm Axial cut) for each case. The most concerning ~10-15 cm segment of bowel for necrosis with a 1 cm margin was selected. A total of 7 slices per patient were segmented for consistency. For both prediction task 1 and prediction task 2, we independently completed the following procedure for testing and training: 1.) Extracted radiomic features from the 3D PI ROIs that resulted in 99 total features. 2.) Used LASSO feature selection to determine the subset of the original 99 features that are most significant for performance of the prediction task. 3.) Used leave-one-out cross-validation for testing and training to account for the small dataset size in our preliminary analysis. Implemented and trained several machine learning models (AdaBoost, SVM, and Naive Bayes). 4.) Evaluated the trained models in terms of AUC and Accuracy and determined the ideal model structure based on these performance metrics. RESULTS/ANTICIPATED RESULTS: Prediction Task 1: The top-performing model for this task was an SVM model trained using 19 features. This model had an AUC of 0.79 and an accuracy of 75%. Prediction Task 2: The top-performing model for this task was an SVM model trained using 28 features. This model had an AUC of 0.74 and an accuracy of 64%. DISCUSSION/SIGNIFICANCE OF IMPACT: To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study to use radiomic-based machine learning models for the prediction of tissue ischemia, specifically intestinal ischemia in the setting of PI. In this preliminary study, which serves as a proof of concept, the performance of our models has demonstrated the potential of machine learning based only on radiomic imaging features to have discriminative power for surgical decision-making problems. While many non-imaging-related clinical factors play a role in the gestalt of clinical decision making when PI presents, we have presented radiomic-based models that may augment this decision-making process, especially for more difficult cases when clinical features indicating acute abdomen are absent. It should be noted that prediction task 2, whether or not a patient presenting with PI would benefit from an operation, has lower performance than prediction task 1 and is also a more challenging task for physicians in real clinical environments. While our results are promising and demonstrate potential, we are currently working to increase our dataset to 300 patients to further train and assess our models. References DuBose, Joseph J., et al. “Pneumatosis Intestinalis Predictive Evaluation Study (PIPES): a multicenter epidemiologic study of the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma.” Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery 75.1 (2013): 15-23. Knechtle, Stuart J., Andrew M. Davidoff, and Reed P. Rice. “Pneumatosis intestinalis. Surgical management and clinical outcome.” Annals of Surgery 212.2 (1990): 160.


2011 ◽  
Vol 29 (6) ◽  
pp. 619-625 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hari Nathan ◽  
John F.P. Bridges ◽  
Richard D. Schulick ◽  
Andrew M. Cameron ◽  
Kenzo Hirose ◽  
...  

Purpose The choice between liver transplantation (LT), liver resection (LR), and radiofrequency ablation (RFA) as initial therapy for early hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is controversial, yet little is known about how surgeons choose therapy for individual patients. We sought to quantify the impact of both clinical factors and surgeon specialty on surgical decision making in early HCC by using conjoint analysis. Methods Surgeons with an interest in liver surgery were invited to complete a Web-based survey including 10 case scenarios. Choice of therapy was then analyzed by using regression models that included both clinical factors and surgeon specialty (non-LT v LT). Results When assessing early HCC occurrences, non-LT surgeons (50% LR; 41% LT; 9% RFA) made significantly different recommendations compared with LT surgeons (63% LT; 31% LR; 6% RFA; P < .001). Clinical factors, including tumor number and size, type of resection required, and platelet count, had significant effects on the choice between LR, LT, and RFA. After adjusting for clinical factors, non-LT surgeons remained more likely than LT surgeons to choose LR compared with LT (relative risk ratio [RRR], 2.67). When the weight of each clinical factor was allowed to vary by surgeon specialty, the residual independent effect of surgeon specialty on the decision between LR and LT was negligible (RRR, 0.93). Conclusion The impact of surgeon specialty on choice of therapy for early HCC is stronger than that of some clinical factors. However, the influence of surgeon specialty does not merely reflect an across-the-board preference for one therapy over another. Rather, certain clinical factors are weighed differently by surgeons in different specialties.


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