A radiomic model based on 7T intracranial vessel wall imaging for identification of culprit middle cerebral artery plaque associated with subcortical infarctions.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Radiomics has been proven to be an important method for the quantitative assessment of atherosclerotic plaques. Therefore, we aimed to evaluate a radiomics approach based on 7.0T high-resolution vessel wall imaging (HR-VWI) to identify culprit middle cerebral artery (MCA) plaques associated with subcortical infarctions.

Methods

One hundred patients with MCA plaques were prospectively enrolled. Among these patients, 145 plaques (74 culprit plaques and 71 non-culprit plaques) were included. A traditional model was constructed by recording the conventional radiological plaque characteristics of HR-VWI. Radiomics features from HR-VWI images were utilized to construct a radiomics model. A combined model was built using both conventional radiological and radiomics featu

SUBMITTER: Chen T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12730851 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Winter

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature