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Radiol."],"abstract":"<jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Purpose<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Automated monitoring of multiple sclerosis (MS) lesion progression remains challenging in clinical practice. This study evaluates LongiSeg, a longitudinal deep learning architecture, on heterogeneous clinical data to assess its practical value for routine MS radiological monitoring and extends its use for new lesion detection.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>We trained LongiSeg on 470 patients from a diverse clinical cohort acquired across 15 scanner types (both 1.5T and 3T) with mixed 2D\/3D T2w FLAIR sequences. We trained and evaluated models for both cross-sectional lesion segmentation and new lesion detection. Performance was compared against a single-timepoint nnU-Net on a cross-sectional test cohort consisting of 67 patients as well as 22 patients presenting with new lesions.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      LongiSeg achieved superior cross-sectional segmentation performance compared to single-timepoint nnU-Net on the clinical test set (\n                      <jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u2009=\u200967, T2w FLAIR input, DSC: 0.684\u2009\u00b1\u20090.124 vs. DSC: 0.665\u2009\u00b1\u20090.144). LongiSeg for new lesion detection obtained a low performance on the small clinical test cohort (\n                      <jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u2009=\u200922, DSC: 0.260, 95%CI: 0.143\u20130.383).\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>LongiSeg demonstrated moderate improvements in cross-sectional MS lesion segmentation. However, the added complexity of processing longitudinal scans may not be justified by these modest gains. 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