"On average a middle-aged person might have maybe 500 or 600 of these small spaces on an MRI," Habes said. "Think about a neuroradiologist who is going to sit down and count all of them.

SAN ANTONIO, Tx. - Mohamad Habes, director of neuroimaging at UT Health in San Antonio, studies MRI scans to find lesions in the brain that are deeply lodged in the perivascular folds.

Brain lesions called enlarged perivascular spaces — a marker of small-vessel disease that can lead to stroke and dementia — have been ignored because of the difficulty of counting them on MRI ...

Patients with SSc vs controls showed a greater prevalence of WMH on brain MRIs, particularly in deep white matter regions.

Neuroscientist Mohamad Habes studies MRI scans at UT Health San Antonio to find lesions in the brain deeply lodged in perivascular folds. “AI is using all these sequences together,” Habes said.

“Second, these findings demonstrate that, contrary to a long-held belief that these post-ablation MRI-detected small brain lesions are asymptomatic — in fact, they are often referred to as ...