Description

There is a clear need for a data-driven and personalized treatment optimisation tool for people with Multiple Sclerosis (MS), in order to enable/support physicians to deploy appropriate therapeutic measures that will help to better slow down disease progression and eventually, progressive disability worsening. While early diagnosis and prognostic modelling is important to make data-driven recommendations for treatment optimisation, being able to disentangle and monitor the disability accumulation due to 'relapse associated worsening' or due to 'progression independent of relapse activity' will be key to optimizing treatment for the best possible long-term outcomes. The latter strongly depends on the availability of biomarkers that can detect and differentiate between these different forms of disease worsening.

With the RECLAIM study, we focus on gathering a centralized and harmonized dataset, enabling the secondary use of data to support prognosis for people with MS, as well as treatment optimisation in a real-world setting. As such, RECLAIM aims to develop MRI-based tools to better monitor disease progression in people with MS, as well as AI-based models that will support prognosis of individual disease course and treatment response, comprising: (i) a biomarker-based MS progression model, (ii) an MRI-focused generative model to predict brain characteristic evolution, and (iii) an interventional model for treatment optimisation. Additionally, the data will be used to generate further insights on Multiple Sclerosis progression as well as to develop the tools to monitor this progression.