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Although neuropsychological assessment and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) are routinely used separately, there is no simple clinically applicable framework integrating cognitive performance with structural brain changes to identify patients at increased risk of cognitive decline. Integrating neuropsychological testing with MRI-based atrophy metrics may yield clinically useful cognitive phenotypes with differential patterns of brain atrophy measures.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      Data were collected from 79 patients with multiple sclerosis (PwMS) who underwent comprehensive neuropsychological assessment and brain MRI. Neuropsychological variables were subjected to a feature selection procedure based on variance and quartile coefficient of dispersion filtering, followed by Pearson correlation and mutual information (MI) analyses to generate reduced feature sets. These feature sets were used as input for unsupervised clustering with the Partitioning Around Medoids (PAM) algorithm to identify cognitive phenotypes. Differences between the resulting groups in the degree of brain atrophy measures were subsequently evaluated using appropriate statistical tests\u2014one-way ANOVA or the Kruskal\u2013Wallis test.\n                      <jats:italic>Post hoc<\/jats:italic>\n                      analysis was performed using a pairwise\n                      <jats:italic>t<\/jats:italic>\n                      -test, Welch's\n                      <jats:italic>t<\/jats:italic>\n                      -test, or Wilcoxon test with the Holm-Bonferroni correction, depending on the data distribution and variance.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>The feature selection procedure based on variance and mutual information identified neuropsychological features that were subsequently used for clustering. Based on these features, the PAM algorithm identified three distinct groups of PwMS that differed in their clinical characteristics, degree of brain atrophy measures, and cognitive phenotype, ranging from preserved cognition to global cognitive impairment.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Three cognitive phenotypes with differential patterns of brain atrophy measures integrate neuropsychological testing with MRI measures into a clinically applicable framework that may help bridge the gap between structural imaging findings and everyday cognitive assessment in PwMS. 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