Deep learning for MRI-based acute and subacute ischaemic stroke lesion segmentation-a systematic review, meta-analysis, and pilot evaluation of key results
Abstract
Background: Segmentation of ischaemic stroke lesions from magnetic resonance images (MRI) remains a challenging task mainly due to the confounding appearance of these lesions with other pathologies, and variations in their presentation depending on the lesion stage (i.e., hyper-acute, acute, subacute and chronic). Works on the theme have been reviewed, but none of the reviews have addressed the seminal question on what would be the optimal architecture to address this challenge. We systematically reviewed the literature (2015-2023) for deep learning algorithms that segment acute and/or subacute stroke lesions on brain MRI seeking to address this question, meta-analysed the data extracted, and evaluated the results.
Methods and materials: Our review, registered in PROSPERO (ID: CRD42023481551), involved a systematic search from January 2015 to December 2023 in the following databases: IEE Explore, MEDLINE, ScienceDirect, Web of Science, PubMed, Springer, and OpenReview.net. We extracted sample characteristics, stroke stage, imaging protocols, and algorithms, and meta-analysed the data extracted. We assessed the risk of bias using NIH's study quality assessment tool, and finally, evaluated our results using data from the ISLES-2015-SISS dataset.
Results: From 1485 papers, 41 were ultimately retained. 13/41 studies incorporated attention mechanisms in their architecture, and 39/41 studies used the Dice Similarity Coefficient to assess algorithm performance. The generalisability…
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