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An Ontology Approach for Classification of Abnormal White Matter in Patients with Multiple Sclerosis

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HCI and Usability for Medicine and Health Care (USAB 2007)

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Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is an inflammatory autoimmune disease of the Central Nervous System, characterized by development of lesions that cause interference in the communication between brain and the rest of the body. Some techniques using numeric algorithms based on mathematical and probabilistic theories are generally used in order to obtain lesions detection. In this paper we describe an innovative approach for lesions recognition to be applied after segmentation of brain tissues from quantitive evaluation of MR studies. Knowledge about MS lesions is formalized through an ontology and a set of rules: integrating them, automatic inferences can be realized to point out lesions, starting from data about potentially brain abnormal white matter.

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Alfano, B., Brunetti, A., De Pietro, G., Esposito, A. (2007). An Ontology Approach for Classification of Abnormal White Matter in Patients with Multiple Sclerosis. In: Holzinger, A. (eds) HCI and Usability for Medicine and Health Care. USAB 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4799. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-76805-0_34

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