A fully automated pipeline for brain structure segmentation in multiple sclerosis

Highlights • We present an automated pipeline to segment the brain structures of MS patients.• The proposed pipeline improves the segmentation result of the traditional methods.• Traditional methods combined with lesion filling are sensitive to the lesion mask used.• The results show that our pipeline is robust against variations in the lesion mask.

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