Lumbar Puncture Complications: A Review of Current Literature

Reis, Alexandra E.; Spano, Matthew; Davis-Hayes, Cecilia; Salama, Gayle R.

doi:10.1007/s11916-024-01262-2

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“…For those who meet these criteria, the definitive diagnosis often involves a lumbar puncture/CSF drainage, complemented by serial clinical assessments at a specialized center 7,8 . While less invasive than intracranial shunting, lumbar punctures can still entail risk, albeit rare, for headaches and discomfort 9 .…”

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Assessing CT-based Volumetric Analysis via Transfer Learning with MRI and Manual Labels for Idiopathic Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus

Srikrishna,

Seo,

Zettergren

et al. 2024

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BackgroundBrain computed tomography (CT) is an accessible and commonly utilized technique for assessing brain structure. In cases of idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus (iNPH), the presence of ventriculomegaly is often neuroradiologically evaluated by visual rating and manually measuring each image. Previously, we have developed and tested a deep-learning-model that utilizes transfer learning from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for CT-based intracranial tissue segmentation. Accordingly, herein we aimed to enhance the segmentation of ventricular cerebrospinal fluid (VCSF) in brain CT scans and assess the performance of automated brain CT volumetrics in iNPH patient diagnostics.MethodsThe development of the model used a two-stage approach. Initially, a 2D U-Net model was trained to predict VCSF segmentations from CT scans, using paired MR-VCSF labels from healthy controls. This model was subsequently refined by incorporating manually segmented lateral CT-VCSF labels from iNPH patients, building on the features learned from the initial U-Net model. The training dataset included 734 CT datasets from healthy controls paired with T1-weighted MRI scans from the Gothenburg H70 Birth Cohort Studies and 62 CT scans from iNPH patients at Uppsala University Hospital. To validate the model’s performance across diverse patient populations, external clinical images including scans of 11 iNPH patients from the Universitätsmedizin Rostock, Germany, and 30 iNPH patients from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, United States were used. Further, we obtained three CT-based volumetric measures (CTVMs) related to iNPH.ResultsOur analyses demonstrated strong volumetric correlations (ρ=0.91, p<0.001) between automatically and manually derived CT-VCSF measurements in iNPH patients. The CTVMs exhibited high accuracy in differentiating iNPH patients from controls in external clinical datasets with an AUC of 0.97 and in the Uppsala University Hospital datasets with an AUC of 0.99.DiscussionCTVMs derived through deep learning, show potential for assessing and quantifying morphological features in hydrocephalus. Critically, these measures performed comparably to gold-standard neuroradiology assessments in distinguishing iNPH from healthy controls, even in the presence of intraventricular shunt catheters. Accordingly, such an approach may serve to improve the radiological evaluation of iNPH diagnosis/monitoring (i.e., treatment responses). Since CT is much more widely available than MRI, our results have considerable clinical impact.

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