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Jack E D Bryant1, Anthony A Birch2, Ronney B Panerai3

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|September 17, 2021
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A new statistical method improves the assessment of cerebral autoregulation (CA) by providing more reliable confidence intervals for phase estimates. This enhances the analysis of brain blood flow control from individual recordings.

Keywords:
blood pressurebootstrapcerebral autoregulationcerebral blood flowconfidence intervalsphase estimatesphysiological model estimation

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  • Neuroscience
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Statistics

Background:

  • Cerebral autoregulation (CA) maintains stable brain blood flow despite blood pressure fluctuations.
  • Transfer function analysis (TFA) phase is a common CA measure, but exhibits high variability.
  • Existing CA measures are inconsistent for individual patient analysis.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To introduce a novel parametric bootstrap method for estimating confidence intervals (CIs) of the mean phase in low-frequency TFA.
  • To optimize CA measure estimation for more robust individual recording analysis.
  • To provide a flexible statistical tool for CA assessment.

Main Methods:

  • A parametric bootstrap method was developed to calculate CIs for TFA phase estimates.
  • Simulations verified the method under controlled conditions.
  • Arterial blood pressure (ABP) and cerebral blood flow velocity (CBFV) were recorded in 20 healthy adults using Finometer and Transcranial Doppler.

Main Results:

  • The novel method generated more stable CIs for CA phase estimates.
  • Excluding noisy data and low-coherence frequencies significantly reduced CI variability (p=0.0065).
  • A 50s TFA window length yielded smaller CIs than 100s or 20s, challenging current recommendations (p<0.001).

Conclusions:

  • The proposed bootstrap method offers a flexible and robust statistical tool for analyzing CA from individual recordings.
  • Optimized TFA parameters (e.g., window length) and data preprocessing improve CA assessment reliability.
  • This approach facilitates more accurate inferences on cerebral autoregulation status in individuals.