Abstract #0667

The Role of Partial Volume Modelling in Longitudinal Automated Multiple Sclerosis Lesion Segmentation

Mário João Fartaria^1,2,3, Tobias Kober^1,2,3, Cristina Granziera^4,5,6, and Meritxell Bach Cuadra^2,3,7

¹Advanced Clinical Imaging Technology, Siemens Healthcare AG, Lausanne, Switzerland, ²Department of Radiology, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV) and University of Lausanne (UNIL), Lausanne, Switzerland, ³Signal Processing Laboratory (LTS 5), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland, ⁴Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States, ⁵Neuroimmunology Unit, Neurology, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV) and University of Lausanne (UNIL), Lausanne, Switzerland, ⁶Neurology Department and Neuroimaging Laboratory, Basel University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland, ⁷Medical Image Analysis Laboratory (MIAL), Centre d'Imagerie BioMédicale (CIBM), Lausanne, Switzerland

Longitudinal analyses in Multiple Sclerosis are often performed to assess disease progression and evaluate treatment response. The number of new and enlarged lesions as well as total lesion volume variations over time are imaging biomarkers used in MS follow-up assessment. Here, we evaluate the performance of an in-house prototype algorithm for lesion detection and volume estimation in a longitudinal scenario. Our algorithm can be run with or without partial volume modelling. Both detection and volume estimation improved using the partial volume model with respect to manual delineations, especially in small lesions and at lesion borders.

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