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Predicting response to motor therapy in chronic stroke patients using Machine Learning

Publication Date: 11/6/2018

Abstract: Accurate predictions of motor improvement resulting from intensive therapy in chronic stroke patients is a difficult task for clinicians, but is key in prescribing appropriate therapeutic strategies. Statistical methods, including machine learning, are a highly promising avenue with which to improve prediction accuracy in clinical practice. The first main objective of this study was to use machine learning methods to predict a chronic stroke individual’s motor function improvement after 6 weeks of intervention using pre-intervention demographic, clinical, neurophysiological and imaging data. The second main objective was to identify which data elements were most important in predicting chronic stroke patients’ impairment after 6 weeks of intervention. Data from one hundred and two patients (Female: 31%, age 61±11 years) who suffered first ischemic stroke 3-12 months prior were included in this study. After enrollment, patients underwent 6 weeks of intensive motor and transcranial magnetic stimulation therapy.

Ceren Tozlu
Dylan Edwards
Aaron Boes
Douglas Labar
K. Zoe Tsagaris
Joshua Silverstein
Heather Pepper Lane
Mert R. Sabuncu
Charles Liu
Amy Kuceyeski