Acupuncture and Tuina School, Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chengdu, Sichuan, China.
Acupuncture and Brain Science Research Center, Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chengdu, Sichuan, China.
Hum Brain Mapp. 2023 Nov;44(16):5416-5428. doi: 10.1002/hbm.26449. Epub 2023 Aug 16.
Whilst acupuncture has been shown to be an effective treatment for functional dyspepsia (FD), its efficacy varies significantly among patients. Knowing beforehand how each patient responds to acupuncture treatment will facilitate the ability to produce personalized prescriptions, therefore, improving acupuncture efficacy. The objective of this study was to construct the prediction model, based on the clinical-neuroimaging signature, to forecast the individual symptom improvement of FD patients following a 4-week acupuncture treatment and to identify the critical predictive features that could potentially serve as biomarkers for predicting the efficacy of acupuncture for FD. Clinical-functional brain connectivity signatures were extracted from samples in the training-test set (100 FD patients) and independent validation set (60 FD patients). Based on these signatures and support vector machine algorithms, prediction models were developed in the training test set, followed by model performance evaluation and predictive features extraction. Subsequently, the external robustness of the extracted predictive features in predicting acupuncture efficacy was evaluated by the independent validation set. The developed prediction models possessed an accuracy of 88% in predicting acupuncture responders, as well as an R of 0.453 in forecasting symptom relief. Factors that contributed significantly to stronger responsiveness of patients to acupuncture therapy included higher resting-state functional connectivity associated with the orbitofrontal gyrus, caudate, hippocampus, and anterior insula, as well as higher baseline scores of the Symptom Index of Dyspepsia and shorter durations of the condition. Furthermore, the robustness of these features in predicting the efficacy of acupuncture for FD was verified through various machine learning algorithms and independent samples and remained stable in univariate and multivariate analyses. These findings suggest that it is both feasible and reliable to predict the efficacy of acupuncture for FD based on the pre-treatment clinical-neuroimaging signature. The established prediction framework will promote the identification of suitable candidates for acupuncture treatment, thereby improving the efficacy and reducing the cost of acupuncture for FD.
虽然针灸已被证明对功能性消化不良(FD)是一种有效的治疗方法,但它在患者中的疗效差异很大。事先了解每个患者对针灸治疗的反应将有助于制定个性化的处方,从而提高针灸的疗效。本研究的目的是构建基于临床神经影像学特征的预测模型,以预测 FD 患者接受 4 周针灸治疗后的个体症状改善,并确定可能作为预测 FD 针灸疗效的生物标志物的关键预测特征。从训练-测试集(100 例 FD 患者)和独立验证集(60 例 FD 患者)中提取临床功能脑连接特征。基于这些特征和支持向量机算法,在训练测试集中开发预测模型,然后评估模型性能并提取预测特征。随后,通过独立验证集评估提取的预测特征在预测针灸疗效中的外部稳健性。开发的预测模型在预测针灸应答者方面的准确率为 88%,在预测症状缓解方面的 R 值为 0.453。对患者对针灸治疗反应性有显著贡献的因素包括与眶额回、尾状核、海马体和前岛叶相关的静息状态功能连接较高,以及消化不良症状指数的基线评分较高和病情持续时间较短。此外,通过各种机器学习算法和独立样本验证了这些特征在预测 FD 针灸疗效中的稳健性,并且在单变量和多变量分析中仍然稳定。这些发现表明,基于治疗前的临床神经影像学特征预测 FD 针灸疗效是可行且可靠的。建立的预测框架将促进识别适合针灸治疗的患者,从而提高针灸治疗 FD 的疗效并降低成本。
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