TY - JOUR
T1 - Topological data analysis for discovery in preclinical spinal cord injury and traumatic brain injury
AU - Nielson, Jessica L.
AU - Paquette, Jesse
AU - Liu, Aiwen W.
AU - Guandique, Cristian F.
AU - Tovar, C. Amy
AU - Inoue, Tomoo
AU - Irvine, Karen Amanda
AU - Gensel, John C.
AU - Kloke, Jennifer
AU - Petrossian, Tanya C.
AU - Lum, Pek Y.
AU - Carlsson, Gunnar E.
AU - Manley, Geoffrey T.
AU - Young, Wise
AU - Beattie, Michael S.
AU - Bresnahan, Jacqueline C.
AU - Ferguson, Adam R.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 Macmillan Publishers Limited.
PY - 2015/10/14
Y1 - 2015/10/14
N2 - Data-driven discovery in complex neurological disorders has potential to extract meaningful syndromic knowledge from large, heterogeneous data sets to enhance potential for precision medicine. Here we describe the application of topological data analysis (TDA) for data-driven discovery in preclinical traumatic brain injury (TBI) and spinal cord injury (SCI) data sets mined from the Visualized Syndromic Information and Outcomes for Neurotrauma-SCI (VISION-SCI) repository. Through direct visualization of inter-related histopathological, functional and health outcomes, TDA detected novel patterns across the syndromic network, uncovering interactions between SCI and co-occurring TBI, as well as detrimental drug effects in unpublished multicentre preclinical drug trial data in SCI. TDA also revealed that perioperative hypertension predicted long-term recovery better than any tested drug after thoracic SCI in rats. TDA-based data-driven discovery has great potential application for decision-support for basic research and clinical problems such as outcome assessment, neurocritical care, treatment planning and rapid, precision-diagnosis.
AB - Data-driven discovery in complex neurological disorders has potential to extract meaningful syndromic knowledge from large, heterogeneous data sets to enhance potential for precision medicine. Here we describe the application of topological data analysis (TDA) for data-driven discovery in preclinical traumatic brain injury (TBI) and spinal cord injury (SCI) data sets mined from the Visualized Syndromic Information and Outcomes for Neurotrauma-SCI (VISION-SCI) repository. Through direct visualization of inter-related histopathological, functional and health outcomes, TDA detected novel patterns across the syndromic network, uncovering interactions between SCI and co-occurring TBI, as well as detrimental drug effects in unpublished multicentre preclinical drug trial data in SCI. TDA also revealed that perioperative hypertension predicted long-term recovery better than any tested drug after thoracic SCI in rats. TDA-based data-driven discovery has great potential application for decision-support for basic research and clinical problems such as outcome assessment, neurocritical care, treatment planning and rapid, precision-diagnosis.
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U2 - 10.1038/ncomms9581
DO - 10.1038/ncomms9581
M3 - Article
C2 - 26466022
AN - SCOPUS:84945197673
SN - 2041-1723
VL - 6
JO - Nature Communications
JF - Nature Communications
M1 - 8581
ER -