Abstract #2439

A patch-based method for lesion in-painting in the spinal cord

Ferran Prados^1,2, Manuel Jorge Cardoso¹, Marios C Yiannakas², Baris Kanber^1,2, Hugh Kearney², Claudia AM Gandini Wheeler-Kignshott^2,3,4, and Sebastien Ourselin¹

¹Translational Imaging Group, CMIC, Dep. of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, University College London, London, United Kingdom, ²UCL Institute of Neurology, Queen Square MS Centre, University College London, London, United Kingdom, ³Department of Brain and Behavioural Sciences, University of Pavia, Italy, ⁴Brain MRI 3T Mondino Research Center, C. Mondino National Neurological Institute, Italy

Multiple Sclerosis lesions can impair most automated image-processing pipelines. They can be present with different sizes, contrasts and shapes and at multiple locations across the central nervous system. Whilst lesion-filling is often a required pre-processing step in the analysis of brain MR images, its potential utility in spinal cord imaging remains unexplored. This study introduces a method for in-painting lesions in the spinal cord and demonstrates its efficacy for improving the results of spinal cord MR image analysis.

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