S A Amukotuwa1,2, A Wu3, K Zhou3, I Page4, P Brotchie2, R Bammer4. 1. From the Department of Diagnostic Imaging (S.A.A., A.W., K.Z.), Monash Health, Clayton, Australia samukotuwa@gmail.com. 2. Department of Radiology (S.A.A., P.B.), Barwon Health, Geelong, Australia. 3. From the Department of Diagnostic Imaging (S.A.A., A.W., K.Z.), Monash Health, Clayton, Australia. 4. Department of Radiology (I.P., R.B.), The Royal Melbourne Hospital, Parkville, Australia.
Abstract
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Detecting intracranial distal arterial occlusions on CTA is challenging but increasingly relevant to clinical decision-making. Our purpose was to determine whether the use of CTP-derived time-to-maximum of the tissue residue function maps improves diagnostic performance for detecting these occlusions. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Seventy consecutive patients with a distal arterial occlusion and 70 randomly selected controls who underwent multimodal CT with CTA and CTP for a suspected acute ischemic stroke were included in this retrospective study. Four readers with different levels of experience independently read the CTAs in 2 separate sessions, with and without time-to-maximum of the tissue residue function maps, recording the presence or absence of an occlusion, diagnostic confidence, and interpretation time. Accuracy for detecting distal occlusions was assessed using receiver operating characteristic analysis, and areas under curves were compared to assess whether accuracy improved with use of time-to-maximum of the tissue residue function. Changes in diagnostic confidence and interpretation time were assessed using the Wilcoxon signed rank test. RESULTS: Mean sensitivity for detecting occlusions on CTA increased from 70.7% to 90.4% with use of time-to-maximum of the tissue residue function maps. Diagnostic accuracy improved significantly for the 4 readers (P < .001), with areas under the receiver operating characteristic curves increasing by 0.186, 0.136, 0.114, and 0.121, respectively. Diagnostic confidence and speed also significantly increased. CONCLUSIONS: All assessed metrics of diagnostic performance for detecting distal arterial occlusions improved with the use of time-to-maximum of the tissue residue function maps, encouraging their use to aid in interpretation of CTA by both experienced and inexperienced readers. These findings show the added diagnostic value of including CTP in the acute stroke imaging protocol.
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