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Technical Feasibility of Multimodal Imaging in Neonatal Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy from Ovine Model to Human Case Series

Version 1 : Received: 29 May 2023 / Approved: 30 May 2023 / Online: 30 May 2023 (08:12:44 CEST)

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Hagan, B.; Mujumdar, R.; Sahoo, J.P.; Das, A.; Dutta, A. Technical Feasibility of Multimodal Imaging in Neonatal Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy from an Ovine Model to a Human Case Series. Frontiers in Pediatrics 2023, 11, doi:10.3389/fped.2023.1072663. Hagan, B.; Mujumdar, R.; Sahoo, J.P.; Das, A.; Dutta, A. Technical Feasibility of Multimodal Imaging in Neonatal Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy from an Ovine Model to a Human Case Series. Frontiers in Pediatrics 2023, 11, doi:10.3389/fped.2023.1072663.

Abstract

Hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) secondary to perinatal asphyxia occurs when the brain does not receive enough oxygen and blood. A surrogate marker for ‘intact survival’ is necessary for the successful management of HIE. The severity of HIE can be classified based on clinical presentation, including presence of seizures, using a clinical classification scale called Sarnat staging; however, Sarnat staging is subjective and the score changes over time. Furthermore, seizures are difficult to detect clinically and are associated with a poor prognosis. Therefore, a tool for continuous monitoring on the cot side is necessary, for example, electroencephalogram (EEG) that non-invasively measures the electrical activity of the brain from the scalp. Then, multimodal brain imaging, when combined with functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), can capture the neurovascular coupling (NVC) status. In this study, we first tested the feasibility of a low-cost EEG-fNIRS imaging system to differentiate between normal, hypoxic, and ictal states in a perinatal ovine hypoxia model. Here, the objective was to evaluate a portable cot side device and autoregressive (ARX) modelling to capture the perinatal ovine brain states during a simulated HIE injury. So, ARX parameters were tested with a linear classifier using a single differential channel EEG, with varying states of tissue oxygenation detected using fNIRS, to label simulated HIE states in a perinatal ovine hypoxia model. Then, we showed the technical feasibility of the low-cost EEG-fNIRS device and ARX modeling with support vector machine classification for a human HIE case series with and without sepsis. The classifier trained with the ovine hypoxia data labelled ten severe HIE human cases (with and without sepsis) as “hypoxia” group and the four moderate HIE human cases as the “control” group. Furthermore, we showed the feasibility of experimental modal analysis (EMA) based on the ARX model to investigate the NVC dynamics using EEG-fNIRS joint-imaging data that differentiated six severe HIE human cases without sepsis from four severe HIE human cases with sepsis. In conclusion, our study showed the technical feasibility of EEG-fNIRS imaging, ARX modeling of NVC for HIE classification, and EMA that may provide a biomarker to detect sepsis effects on the NVC in HIE.

Keywords

hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy; electroencephalogram; near-infrared spectroscopy; neurovascular coupling; experimental modal analysis

Subject

Engineering, Bioengineering

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