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. 2023 Feb 23;13(5):857. doi: 10.3390/diagnostics13050857

Table 2.

Characteristics of studies included in systematic review.

Study, Year Sample, Age, Sex AIS Type Tx Onset-to-MRI Time Outcome Criteria Clinical Factors MRI Markers MRI Seq RA Features Predictive Models AUC, 95% CI
Quan et al. [33], 2021 110, 62, 70.9% male first AIS in MCA territory, onset
≤72 h
ivT, MT: 12 p 26.5 ± 15.7 90 days unfavorable outcome
mRS > 2
Age, gender, admission NIHSS DWI-ASPECT score, ODs FLAIR ADC 6, TA, wavelet Clinical 0.79, 0.68–0.89
Clinical + MRI 0.78, 0.68–0.88
ADC radiomics 0.77, 0.62–0.83
FLAIR radiomics 0.73. 0.62–0.83
ADC + FLAIR radiomics 0.81, 0.73–0.89
RA + Clinical + MRI 0.92, 0.87–0.97
Wang et al. [34], 2021 399, 67, 63.9% male NR NR within 24 h after AIS onset 90 days outcome
mRS > 2
Age, 24-h NIHSS Hemorrhage DWI 11, TA Clinical model 0.77, 0.71–0.84
Radiomics model 0.70, 0.64–0.77
Clinical + radiomics 0.80, 0.75–0.86
Zhou et al. [35], 2022 311, 58, 72.7% male Pen artery: 43.1%, cMCA: 28.6%, cACA: 5.5%, cPCA = 8.4%,
≥2 territories: 14.5%
NR <24 h: 6.1%24–72 h: 93.9% 6-month good outcome (mRS ≤ 2), poor outcome (mRS > 2) Age, gender, stroke history, DM, b-mRS, b-NIHSS - DWI, ADC 7, first-order statistics, TA Clinical model 0.82, 0.77–0.87
Radiomics model 0.76, 0.70–0.82
Clinical + radiomics 0.86, 0.82–0.91
Zhang et al. [36], 2022 103, 65, 64% male Unilateral anterior circulation NR NR 90 days outcome
mRS > 2
Atrial fibrillation - ADC 7, TA, wavelet, LGT ADC 0.60, 049–0.71
tADC 0.83, 075–0.91
tADC + clinical 0.86, 079–0.93
Wang et al. [37], 2022 1003, 67, 67.9% m Ant-circ: 68.5%, Post-circ: 28.5%, Both: 3% NR 72 h of AIS onset 90 d outcome
1y AIS recurrence
NR - DWI 100, TA, wavelet Radiomics model 0.77, 0.75–0.80
Clinical + radiomics 0.84, 0.82–0.87
Wang et al. [38], 2020 116, 64, 72% male NR NR NR 90 days outcome
mRS > 2, stroke severity
- - FLAIR, ADC 15, first-order statistics, TA RA features were not predictive of mRS. ADC-entropy and T2-FLAIR 0.75 quantile predicted AIS severity (AUC = 0.7, p = 0.01).

Tx = treatment, MRI Seq = MRI sequences for feature selection, MCA = middle cerebral artery, ivT = intravenous thrombolysis, MT = mechanical thrombectomy, OD = orthogonal diameters, TA = texture analysis, FLAIR = fluid-attenuated-inversion recovery, ADC = apparent diffusion coefficient, TA = texture analysis, tADC = texture analysis from ADC, Pen artery = penetrating artery, cor-MCA = cortical branches of middle cerebral artery, cor-ACA = cortical branches of anterior cerebral artery, cor-PCA = cortical branches of posterior cerebral artery, DM = diabetes mellitus, b-mRS = baseline mRS, b-NIHSS = baseline NIHSS, LGT = Laplacian of Gaussian transformation, NR = not reported.