Paper ID: 2211.04850

Final infarct prediction in acute ischemic stroke

Jeroen Bertels, David Robben, Dirk Vandermeulen, Robin Lemmens

This article focuses on the control center of each human body: the brain. We will point out the pivotal role of the cerebral vasculature and how its complex mechanisms may vary between subjects. We then emphasize a specific acute pathological state, i.e., acute ischemic stroke, and show how medical imaging and its analysis can be used to define the treatment. We show how the core-penumbra concept is used in practice using mismatch criteria and how machine learning can be used to make predictions of the final infarct, either via deconvolution or convolutional neural networks.

Submitted: Nov 9, 2022