BrainNetCNN outperforms a fully connected neural-network with the same number of model parameters on both phantoms with focal and diffuse injury patterns.
11 had diffuse injury according to Marshall classification.
Mortality at diffuse injury type I was 9.1% vs 68.2% in injury type IV.
The complexity level of ROI analysis increases tremendously by the complicated nature of TBI that generally involves a combination of focal and diffuse injury mechanisms.
Sepsis is a leading cause of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), characterized by diffuse injury of the alveoli-capillary wall, increased pulmonary vascular permeability, and alveolar and interstitial edema.
Computerized tomography (CT) on admission by Marshall score was: diffuse injury type I (10.4%), type II (28.1%), type III (24.5%), type IV (8.3 %), mass evacuated (22.6%), mass not evacuated (6.2%).
The violent shaking of an infant that causes shaken baby syndrome commonly manifests as diffuse injury.
Abnormal posturing, a characteristic positioning of the limbs caused by severe diffuse injury or high ICP, is an ominous sign.
It also has been proposed to use changes that are visible on neuroimaging, such as swelling, focal lesions, or diffuse injury as method of classification.
Diffuse injury manifests with little apparent damage in neuroimaging studies, but lesions can be seen with microscopy techniques post-mortem, and in the early 2000s, researchers discovered that diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), a way of processing MRI images that shows white matter tracts, was an effective tool for displaying the extent of diffuse axonal injury.
