Outcome measures in clinical trials for multiple sclerosis

CEP van Munster, BMJ Uitdehaag - CNS drugs, 2017 - Springer
Due to the heterogeneous nature of the disease, it is a challenge to capture disease activity
of multiple sclerosis (MS) in a reliable and valid way. Therefore, it can be difficult to assess …

Neuromyelitis optica and multiple sclerosis: seeing differences through optical coherence tomography

JL Bennett, J de Seze, M Lana-Peixoto… - Multiple Sclerosis …, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
Neuromyelitis optica (NMO) is an inflammatory autoimmune disease of the central nervous
system that preferentially targets the optic nerves and spinal cord. The clinical presentation …

Optical coherence tomography reflects brain atrophy in multiple sclerosis: a four‐year study

S Saidha, O Al‐Louzi, JN Ratchford… - Annals of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Objective The aim of this work was to determine whether atrophy of specific retinal layers
and brain substructures are associated over time, in order to further validate the utility of …

Autoencoder based self-supervised test-time adaptation for medical image analysis

Y He, A Carass, L Zuo, BE Dewey, JL Prince - Medical image analysis, 2021 - Elsevier
Deep neural networks have been successfully applied to medical image analysis tasks like
segmentation and synthesis. However, even if a network is trained on a large dataset from …

Retinal layer segmentation of macular OCT images using boundary classification

A Lang, A Carass, M Hauser, ES Sotirchos… - Biomedical optics …, 2013 - opg.optica.org
Optical coherence tomography (OCT) has proven to be an essential imaging modality for
ophthalmology and is proving to be very important in neurology. OCT enables high …

Quality control for retinal OCT in multiple sclerosis: validation of the OSCAR-IB criteria

S Schippling, LJ Balk, F Costello… - Multiple sclerosis …, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
Background: Retinal optical coherence tomography (OCT) permits quantification of retinal
layer atrophy relevant to assessment of neurodegeneration in multiple sclerosis (MS) …

Optical coherence tomography segmentation reveals ganglion cell layer pathology after optic neuritis

SB Syc, S Saidha, SD Newsome, JN Ratchford, M Levy… - Brain, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Post-mortem ganglion cell dropout has been observed in multiple sclerosis; however,
longitudinal in vivo assessment of retinal neuronal layers following acute optic neuritis …

Vision and vision-related outcome measures in multiple sclerosis

LJ Balcer, DH Miller, SC Reingold, JA Cohen - Brain, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Visual impairment is a key manifestation of multiple sclerosis. Acute optic neuritis is a
common, often presenting manifestation, but visual deficits and structural loss of retinal …

Ganglion cell loss in relation to visual disability in multiple sclerosis

SD Walter, H Ishikawa, KM Galetta, RE Sakai, DJ Feller… - Ophthalmology, 2012 - Elsevier
PURPOSE: We used high-resolution spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (SD-
OCT) with retinal segmentation to determine how ganglion cell loss relates to history of …

The APOSTEL recommendations for reporting quantitative optical coherence tomography studies

A Cruz-Herranz, LJ Balk, T Oberwahrenbrock… - Neurology, 2016 - AAN Enterprises
Objective: To develop consensus recommendations for reporting of quantitative optical
coherence tomography (OCT) study results. Methods: A panel of experienced OCT …