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A Comprehensive Clinical Decision Support System for the Early Diagnosis of Ankylosing Spondylitis: Multi-Sequence MRI, Clinical Risk Integration, and Explainable Segmentation,’
Diagnostics 2026 Cilt 16 Sayı 1037
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Background/Objectives: This study aims to develop a comprehensive Clinical Decision Support System (CDSS) that integrates multi-sequence sacroiliac joint (SIJ) MRIs with rheumatological, clinical, and laboratory findings into the decision-making process for the early diagnosis of axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA), incorporating segmentation-supported explainability. Methods: Multi-sequence SIJ MRI data (T1-WI, T2-WI, STIR, and PD-WI) were analysed from 367 participants (n = 193 axSpA; n = 174 non-axSpA controls). Sequence-based classification was performed using VGG16, ResNet50, DenseNet121, and InceptionV3 models; additionally, a lightweight and parameter-efficient SacroNet architecture was developed. Slice-level probability scores were converted to patient-level scores using the Dynamic Top-K Averaging method. Image-based scores were combined with a logistic regression-based clinical risk score using weighted linear integration (0.60 image/0.40 clinical) and a conservative threshold (τ = 0.70). Grad-CAM was applied for visual interpretability. Furthermore, to support the diagnostic outcomes with precise spatial data, active inflammation in STIR and T2-WI sequences was segmented. For this purpose, the MDC-UNet model was employed and compared with baseline U-Net derivatives. Results: Sequence-specific analysis showed VGG16 performing best on T1-WI (AUC = 0.920; Accuracy = 0.878) and DenseNet121 on STIR (AUC = 0.793; Accuracy = 0.771). The SacroNet architecture provided competitive classification performance at the patient level despite its low number of parameters (~110 K). Furthermore, MDC-UNet successfully segmented active inflammation, yielding Dice scores of 0.752 (HD95: 19.25) for STIR and 0.682 (HD95: 26.21) for T2-WI. Conclusions: The findings demonstrate that patient-level decision integration based on multi-sequence MRI, when used in conjunction with clinical risk scoring and segmentation-assisted interpretability, can provide a feasible and interpretable DSS framework for the early diagnosis of axSpA.
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Dergi Diagnostics
ISSN 2077-0383
Yıl 2026 / 3. ay
Cilt / Sayı 16 / 1037
Sayfalar 1 – 26
Makale Türü Özgün Makale
Hakemlik Hakemli
Endeks SCI-Expanded
JCR Quartile Q1
Yayın Dili İngilizce
Kapsam Uluslararası
Toplam Yazar 6 kişi
Erişim Türü Basılı
Alan Sağlık Bilimleri Temel Alanı Romatoloji

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Yazar Adı TARAKÇI FATİH,ÖZKAN İLKER ALİ,DOĞAN MUSA,ÖZER HALİL,TEZCAN DİLEK,YILMAZ SEMA
YÖKSİS ID 9398118