Automated multiple sclerosis progression rate computation of a patient from 2D FLAIR images with Rayleigh-Weibull-Fuzzy imaging and augmented morphing method

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00179906%3A_____%2F24%3A10487102" target="_blank" >RIV/00179906:_____/24:10487102 - isvavai.cz</a>

Alternative codes found

RIV/62690094:18450/24:50021791 RIV/00216208:11150/24:10487102

Result on the web

<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=CRyQYwYnqG" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=CRyQYwYnqG</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.knosys.2024.112580" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.knosys.2024.112580</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Automated multiple sclerosis progression rate computation of a patient from 2D FLAIR images with Rayleigh-Weibull-Fuzzy imaging and augmented morphing method

Original language description

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a neurological demyelinating disorder affecting brain and spinal cord by attacking the myelin sheaths of nerves. Estimation of the volumetric changes in MS lesions is a challenging and specialized task which is executed and judged by medical experts. The change in the volume of the lesions provides crucial information on MS progression or regression by comparing the magnetic resonance images (MRI) taken in successive scans. However, visual comparison of the images, even with an expert eye, would not always lead to a conclusive decision nor a consensus on progression or regression. Therefore, we present an automated expert system for estimating MS progression rate by automatic lesion segmentation and volume estimation using twodimensional MRIs, which is also adaptable to various parameters, slice thickness and increment. A clinical dataset is specially formed for this research which contains three sets of 135 MR images of an MS patient generated within approximately 23- and 6-month periods consecutively with identical device parameters. The lesions are segmented by a novel Rayleigh-Weibull-Fuzzy (RWF) imaging method based on the Nakagami distribution and specialized fuzzy 2-means. Subsequently, the segmentation module is trained to fit the ground truths images created by experts to achieve the highest dice score possible for a total number of 56 images containing lesions, which is found as 93.76 %. Afterwards, several imaginary image sequences are generated by augmented linear and nonlinear morphing for re-segmentation of imaginary lesions by RWF. Finally, we estimated the volumetric change between the first two MRI sequences to adjust the morphing module and to predict the progression rate of the lesions in time. The framework automatically selected the highest accuracy, which is 99.9 % in the training session and estimated the progression rate in the testing phase with 99.69 % accuracy, which are not achievable without augmented morphing methodology. For the first time in the literature, an automated framework could estimate the MS progression rate from the raw MR images, which is also the main innovation of this paper and the outputs would be beneficial for the experts working on this field.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

30224 - Radiology, nuclear medicine and medical imaging

Project

<a href="/en/project/EF18_069%2F0010054" target="_blank" >EF18_069/0010054: IT4Neuro(degeneration)</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Knowledge-based Systems

ISSN

0950-7051

e-ISSN

1872-7409

Volume of the periodical

305

Issue of the periodical within the volume

December

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

15

Pages from-to

112580

UT code for WoS article

001338783300001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85206534334