Traumatic Brain Injury Imaging Research Roadmap

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SUMMARY: The past decade has seen impressive advances in the types of neuroimaging information that can be acquired in patients with traumatic brain injury. However, despite this increase in information, understanding of the contribution of this information to prognostic accuracy and treatment pathways for patients is limited. Available techniques often allow us to infer the presence of microscopic changes indicative of alterations in physiology and function in brain tissue. However, because histologic confirmation is typically lacking, conclusions reached by using these techniques remain solely inferential in almost all cases. Hence, a need exists for validation of these techniques by using data from large population samples that are obtained in a uniform manner, analyzed according to well-accepted procedures, and correlated with closely monitored clinical outcomes. At present, many of these approaches remain confined to population-based research rather than diagnosis at an individual level, particularly with regard to traumatic brain injury that is mild or moderate in degree. A need and a priority exist for patient-centered tools that will allow advanced neuroimaging tools to be brought into clinical settings. One barrier to developing these tools is a lack of an age-, sex-, and comorbidities-stratified, sequence-specific, reference imaging data base that could provide a clear understanding of normal variations across populations. Such a data base would provide researchers and clinicians with the information necessary to develop computational tools for the patient-based interpretation of advanced neuroimaging studies in the clinical setting.
The recent “Joint ASNR-ACR HII-ASFNR TBI Workshop: Bringing Advanced Neuroimaging for Traumatic Brain Injury into the Clinic” on May 23, 2014, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, brought together neuroradiologists, neurologists, psychiatrists, neuropsychologists, neuroimaging scientists, members of the National Institute of Neurologic Disorders and Stroke, industry representatives, and other traumatic brain injury stakeholders to attempt to reach consensus on issues related to and develop consensus recommendations in terms of creating both a well-characterized normative data base of comprehensive imaging and ancillary data to serve as a reference for tools that will allow interpretation of advanced neuroimaging tests at an individual level of a patient with traumatic brain injury. The workshop involved discussions concerning the following: 1) designation of the policies and infrastructure needed for a normative data base, 2) principles for characterizing normal control subjects, and 3) standardizing research neuroimaging protocols for traumatic brain injury. The present article summarizes these recommendations and examines practical steps to achieve them.
Abbreviations
- ABIDE
- Autism Brain Imaging Data Exchange
- ACR
- American College of Radiology
- ADNI
- Alzheimer Disease Neuroimaging Initiative
- AFSNR
- American Society of Functional Neuroradiology
- ASNR
- American Society of Neuroradiology
- CDE
- Common Data Element
- DART
- Data Archive and Research Toolkit
- DKI
- diffusional kurtosis imaging
- FITBIR
- Federal Interagency TBI Research
- LONI
- Laboratory of Neuroimaging
- LORIS
- Longitudinal On-line Research and Imaging System
- NIH
- National Institutes of Health
- NITRC
- Neuroinformatics Tools and Resources
- TBI
- traumatic brain injury
- TRIAD
- Translational Research Informatics and Data Management Grid
- © 2015 American Society of Neuroradiology
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