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Abstract #3372

Improving the detection of white matter lesions in patients with Multiple Sclerosis with super-resolution

Daniel Garca-Lorenzo 1 , Benedetta Bodini 1,2 , Geraldine Bera 3 , Stephane Lehericy 4 , and Bruno Stankoff 1,5

1 ICM/CRICM, UPMC/INSERM UMR_975 CNRS UMR 7225, Paris, France, 2 Department of Neuroimaging, Institute of Psychiatry King's College London, London, United Kingdom, 3 APHP, Hpital Piti-Salptrire, Paris, France, 4 CENIR, ICM/CRICM, UPMC/INSERM UMR_975 CNRS UMR 7225, Paris, France, 5 APHP, Hpital Tenon, Paris, France

Multiple sclerosis lesions may affect brain atrophy measurements and this can be reduced with lesion inpainting. We propose to use a super-resolution technique to increase the resolution of T2-w images before segmenting lesions. Our hypothesis is that using super-resolution T2-w images, we detect more lesions and the inpainting will provide more accurate atrophy measures. We found a higher number of detected lesions using super-resolution compared with standard T2-w images. Also, super-resolution lesions masks reduced the error in the estimation of the cortical thickness compared to the 2D lesion masks after inpainting. This technique can be applied to already acquired protocols.

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