Deep learning methods for extraction of neuroimage markers in the prognosis of brain pathologies
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This PhD thesis focuses on improving the extraction of neuroimage markers for
the prognosis and outcome prediction of neurological pathologies such as ischemic
stroke, Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and multiple sclerosis (MS). Our work has been
developed on two of the most relevant neuroimage markers for diagnosis and
prediction, brain lesion segmentation and longitudinal atrophy quantification.
Brain lesion segmentation can be directly used in MS and ischemic stroke as a
prognostic marker and can also be useful for other downstream segmentation
tasks. In MS, disease activity produces very characteristic lesions which can
help with diagnosis and prognosis of the pathology. In ischemic stroke, lesion
segmentation can inform the treatment decision workflow by quantifying the
amount of tissue that could be salvaged against the risks of surgical intervention.
We also tackle in this PhD thesis the task of brain tissue segmentation for
longitudinal atrophy quantification, a validated prognostic image marker in MS
and AD. Measurements of longitudinal atrophy can be used to assess the rate of
disease progression and might even help to predict AD onset years in advance. In
MS patients, an accelerated rate of brain atrophy is also observed as a result of
disease activity and is used as a prognostic marker and to evaluate the response
of disease-modifying treatments
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