NCT06575283

Predicting Cerebral Palsy in Infants With White Matter Injury Using MRI

Early Prediction of Cerebral Palsy by MRI in Infants With White Matter Injury: a Multicenter Study

• Status: Not Yet Recruiting
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 1,000 (estimated)
• Sponsor: First Affiliated Hospital Xi'an Jiaotong University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 6 Months – 2 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The goal of this study is to determin the MRI features associated with cerebral palsy and to develop prediction models of pediatric disorders by combining MRI with artificial intelligence. The main questions it aims to answer are: * How to achieve features on conventional MRI associated with cerebral palsy? * How to predict the risk of cerebral palsy in infants aged 6 to 2 years based on conventional MRI and deep learning? Researchers will compare characteristics of periventricular white matter injury with cerebral palsy to those without cerebral palsy. Participants will be asked to provide MRI data, clinical diagnoses information, and follow-up outcomes.

Detailed description

Cerebral palsy (CP) is a common group of movement disorders that often results in disability in children. In the context of CP, the importance of early diagnosis is crucial, but current diagnostic modalities often identify cases after the age of 2 years. After initial screening of infants at high risk for CP by behavioral scoring, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) forms an integral part of the comprehensive evaluation. The training of conventional model of CP risk prediction requires a large investment of time and financial resources. The average sensitivity rate drops to 90%. Up to now, deep learning technology has been widely used in tasks related to image-based disease classification and has shown excellent performance. Periventricular white matter injury (PVWMI) accounts for the largest proportion of various types of brain injuries in cerebral palsy, and the types of brain injuries in cerebral palsy are rich and complex, posing difficulties and challenges to deep learning models. Therefore, this study focuses on PVWMI, the most common type of cerebral palsy, and uses conventional MRI to develop a deep learning prediction model for CP in infants aged 6 months to 2 years old.

Conditions

• Cerebral Palsy
• Periventricular White Matter Abnormalities

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	No intervention will be performed in this cohort study	Deep learning classification models will be used for automatic prediction of cerebral palsy. Machines will be used to assist doctors in cerebral palsy risk evaluation.

Timeline

• Start date: 2024-09-01
• Primary completion: 2025-12-31
• Completion: 2025-12-31
• First posted: 2024-08-28
• Last updated: 2024-09-19

Locations

1 site across 1 country: China