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Multicenter Validation of Synthetic FLAIR as a substitute for FLAIR Sequence in Acute Ischemic Stroke

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Purpose: To evaluate performance of synthetic and real FLAIR for identifying early stroke in a multicenter cohort. Methods: This retrospective study was conducted using DWI and FLAIR extracted from the Endovascular Treatment in Ischemic Stroke image registry (2017–2021). The database was partitioned into subsets according to MRI field strength and manufacturer, and randomly divided into training set (70%) used for model fine-tuning, validation set (15%), and test set (15%). In test set, five readers, blinded to FLAIR sequence type, assessed DWI-FLAIR mismatch using real and synthetic FLAIR. Interobserver agreement for DWI-FLAIR rating and concordance between synthetic and real FLAIR were evaluated with kappa statistics. Sensitivity and specificity for identification of ⩽4.5 h AIS were compared in patients with known onset-to-MRI delay using McNemar’s test. Results: 1454 complete MRI sets (1172 patients, median (IQR) age: 73 years (62–82); 762 women) acquired on 125 MRI units were analyzed. In test set (207 MRI), interobserver reproducibility for DWI-FLAIR mismatch labeling was substantial for real and synthetic FLAIR (Fleiss κ = 0.79 (95%CI: 0.73–0.84) and 0.77 (95%CI: 0.71–0.82), respectively). After consensus, concordance between real and synthetic FLAIR was excellent (κ = 0.85 (95%CI: 0.78–0.92)). In 141 MRI sets with known onset-to-MRI delay, diagnostic performances for ⩽4.5 h AIS identification did not differ between real and synthetic FLAIR (sensitivity: 60/71 (85%) vs 59/71 (83%), p = .56; specificity: 65/70 (93%) vs 65/70 (93%), p > 0.99). Conclusion: A deep-learning-based FLAIR fine-tuned on multicenter data can provide comparable performances to real FLAIR for early AIS identification. This approach may help reducing MR protocol duration and motion artifacts.
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inserm-04667549 , version 1 (05-08-2024)

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Guillaume Hamon, Laurence Legrand, Ghazi Hmeydia, Guillaume Turc, Wagih Ben Hassen, et al.. Multicenter Validation of Synthetic FLAIR as a substitute for FLAIR Sequence in Acute Ischemic Stroke. European Stroke Journal, 2024, pp.23969873241263418. ⟨10.1177/23969873241263418⟩. ⟨inserm-04667549⟩
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