Lucia Roccaro
Longitudinal white matter hyperintensity detection in multiple sclerosis.
Rel. Filippo Molinari. Politecnico di Torino, Corso di laurea magistrale in Ingegneria Biomedica, 2023
Abstract
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a degenerative neurological disease affecting the central nervous system. It is characterized by an abnormal immune response resulting in inflammation and progressive damage to myelin, a protective tissue covering the nerve fibers, which is essential for signal transmission. Demyelinated areas in the brain appear as hyperintensities in T2-weighted magnetic resonance (MR) images and are radiologically described as white matter hyperintensities (WMH). At present, the most important radiological diagnostic criterion for MS is based on the identification of these lesions in MR images while follow-up of MS patients primarily consists of comparing MR images of the brain with prior MR examinations.
Performing a manual assessment of the prior and current image for the identification and quantification of white matter lesions is time-consuming for the radiologist and the manual assessment is known to exhibit a significant inter-rater and intra-rater variability
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