Skip to main content

Lund University Publications

LUND UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES

Diffusion tensor MRI to distinguish progressive supranuclear palsy from a-synucleinopathies

Spotorno, Nicola LU ; Hall, Sara LU ; Irwin, David J. ; Rumetshofer, Theodor LU orcid ; Acosta-Cabronero, Julio ; Deik, Andres F. ; Spindler, Meredith A. ; Lee, Edward B. ; Trojanowski, John Q. and Van Westen, Danielle LU orcid , et al. (2019) In Radiology 293(3). p.646-653
Abstract

Background: The differential diagnosis of progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) and Lewy body disorders, which include Parkinson disease and dementia with Lewy bodies, is often challenging due to the overlapping symptoms. Purpose: To develop a diagnostic tool based on diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) to distinguish between PSP and Lewy body disorders at the individual-subject level. Materials and Methods: In this retrospective study, skeletonized DTI metrics were extracted from two independent data sets: the discovery cohort from the Swedish BioFINDER study and the validation cohort from the Penn Frontotemporal Degeneration Center (data collected between 2010 and 2018). Based on previous neuroimaging studies and neuropathologic evidence, a... (More)

Background: The differential diagnosis of progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) and Lewy body disorders, which include Parkinson disease and dementia with Lewy bodies, is often challenging due to the overlapping symptoms. Purpose: To develop a diagnostic tool based on diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) to distinguish between PSP and Lewy body disorders at the individual-subject level. Materials and Methods: In this retrospective study, skeletonized DTI metrics were extracted from two independent data sets: the discovery cohort from the Swedish BioFINDER study and the validation cohort from the Penn Frontotemporal Degeneration Center (data collected between 2010 and 2018). Based on previous neuroimaging studies and neuropathologic evidence, a combination of regions hypothesized to be sensitive to pathologic features of PSP were identified (ie, the superior cerebellar peduncle and frontal white matter) and fractional anisotropy (FA) was used to compute an FA score for each individual. Classification performances were assessed by using logistic regression and receiver operating characteristic analysis. Results: In the discovery cohort, 16 patients with PSP (mean age 6 standard deviation, 73 years 6 5; eight women, eight men), 34 patients with Lewy body disorders (mean age, 71 years 6 6; 14 women, 20 men), and 44 healthy control participants (mean age, 66 years 6 8; 26 women, 18 men) were evaluated. The FA score distinguished between clinical PSP and Lewy body disorders with an area under the curve of 0.97 6 0.04, a specificity of 91% (31 of 34), and a sensitivity of 94% (15 of 16). In the validation cohort, 34 patients with PSP (69 years 6 7; 22 women, 12 men), 25 patients with Lewy body disorders (70 years 6 7; nine women, 16 men), and 32 healthy control participants (64 years 6 7; 22 women, 10 men) were evaluated. The accuracy of the FA score was confirmed (area under the curve, 0.96 6 0.04; specificity, 96% [24 of 25]; and sensitivity, 85% [29 of 34]). Conclusion: These cross-validated findings lay the foundation for a clinical test to distinguish progressive supranuclear palsy from Lewy body disorders.

(Less)
Please use this url to cite or link to this publication:
author
; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; and , et al. (More)
; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; and (Less)
organization
publishing date
type
Contribution to journal
publication status
published
subject
in
Radiology
volume
293
issue
3
pages
8 pages
publisher
Radiological Society of North America
external identifiers
  • scopus:85075813883
  • pmid:31617796
ISSN
0033-8419
DOI
10.1148/radiol.2019190406
language
English
LU publication?
yes
id
8922b8c5-3ca7-459b-b559-d5765325b777
date added to LUP
2019-12-16 10:33:30
date last changed
2024-06-12 06:27:02
@article{8922b8c5-3ca7-459b-b559-d5765325b777,
  abstract     = {{<p>Background: The differential diagnosis of progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) and Lewy body disorders, which include Parkinson disease and dementia with Lewy bodies, is often challenging due to the overlapping symptoms. Purpose: To develop a diagnostic tool based on diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) to distinguish between PSP and Lewy body disorders at the individual-subject level. Materials and Methods: In this retrospective study, skeletonized DTI metrics were extracted from two independent data sets: the discovery cohort from the Swedish BioFINDER study and the validation cohort from the Penn Frontotemporal Degeneration Center (data collected between 2010 and 2018). Based on previous neuroimaging studies and neuropathologic evidence, a combination of regions hypothesized to be sensitive to pathologic features of PSP were identified (ie, the superior cerebellar peduncle and frontal white matter) and fractional anisotropy (FA) was used to compute an FA score for each individual. Classification performances were assessed by using logistic regression and receiver operating characteristic analysis. Results: In the discovery cohort, 16 patients with PSP (mean age 6 standard deviation, 73 years 6 5; eight women, eight men), 34 patients with Lewy body disorders (mean age, 71 years 6 6; 14 women, 20 men), and 44 healthy control participants (mean age, 66 years 6 8; 26 women, 18 men) were evaluated. The FA score distinguished between clinical PSP and Lewy body disorders with an area under the curve of 0.97 6 0.04, a specificity of 91% (31 of 34), and a sensitivity of 94% (15 of 16). In the validation cohort, 34 patients with PSP (69 years 6 7; 22 women, 12 men), 25 patients with Lewy body disorders (70 years 6 7; nine women, 16 men), and 32 healthy control participants (64 years 6 7; 22 women, 10 men) were evaluated. The accuracy of the FA score was confirmed (area under the curve, 0.96 6 0.04; specificity, 96% [24 of 25]; and sensitivity, 85% [29 of 34]). Conclusion: These cross-validated findings lay the foundation for a clinical test to distinguish progressive supranuclear palsy from Lewy body disorders.</p>}},
  author       = {{Spotorno, Nicola and Hall, Sara and Irwin, David J. and Rumetshofer, Theodor and Acosta-Cabronero, Julio and Deik, Andres F. and Spindler, Meredith A. and Lee, Edward B. and Trojanowski, John Q. and Van Westen, Danielle and Nilsson, Markus and Grossman, Murray and Nestor, Peter J. and McMillan, Corey T. and Hansson, Oskar}},
  issn         = {{0033-8419}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  number       = {{3}},
  pages        = {{646--653}},
  publisher    = {{Radiological Society of North America}},
  series       = {{Radiology}},
  title        = {{Diffusion tensor MRI to distinguish progressive supranuclear palsy from a-synucleinopathies}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1148/radiol.2019190406}},
  doi          = {{10.1148/radiol.2019190406}},
  volume       = {{293}},
  year         = {{2019}},
}