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Abstract #2814

Longitudinal automated assessment of paramagnetic rim lesions in multiple sclerosis using RimNet

Maxence Wynen1, Francesco La Rosa2,3,4, Amina Sellimi5, Germán Barquero2,3,4, Gaetano Perrotta6, Valentina Lolli7, Vincent Van Pesch5, Cristina Granziera8,9, Tobias Kober10, Pascal Sati11,12, Benoît Macq13, Daniel S. Reich11, Martina Absinta11,14, Meritxell Bach Cuadra2,3,4, and Pietro Maggi5,15
1Ecole Polytechnique de Louvain, Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, 2Signal Processing Laboratory (LTS5), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland, 3Medical Image Analysis Laboratory, Center for Biomedical Imaging (CIBM), University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland, 4Radiology Department, Lausanne University Hospital and University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland, 5Department of Neurology, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Université Catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium, 6Department of Neurology, Erasme University Hospital, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium, 7Department of Radiology, Erasme University Hospital, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium, 8Neurologic Clinic and Policlinic, Departments of Medicine, Clinical Research and Biomedical Engineering, University Hospital Basel and University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland, 9Translational Imaging in Neurology (ThINk) Basel, Department of Medicine and Biomedical Engineering, University Hospital Basel and University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland, 10Advanced Clinical Imaging Technology, Siemens Healthcare AG, Lausanne, Switzerland, 11Translational Neuroradiology Section, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States, 12Department of Neurology, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, United States, 13ICTEAM Institute, Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, 14Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States, 15Department of Neurology, Lausanne University Hospital and University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

The automatic assessment of paramagnetic rim lesions in multiple sclerosis is important, and a deep learning-based algorithm called RimNet has recently been proposed. This work evaluates the generalizability of RimNet and its longitudinal performance on MRI data acquired at different clinical centers. We found that RimNet’s performance was nearly as good on totally unseen data as in the original paper (receiver-operating-characteristic area-under-the-curve (AUC) 0.88 vs. 0.94, precision-recall AUC 0.69 vs. 0.70), and it made consistent predictions on longitudinal data (binary consistency 82%, probability consistency 93%).

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