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A Thermographic Disease Activity Index for remote assessment of rheumatoid arthritis
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ObjectivesRemote assessment of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) has increased during recent years. However, telematic consultations preclude the possibility of carrying out a physical examination and obtaining objective inflammation. In this study, we developed and validated two novel composite disease activity indexes (Thermographic Disease Activity Index (ThermoDAI) and ThermoDAI-CRP) based on thermography of hands and machine learning, in order to assess disease activity easily, rapidly and without formal joint counts.MethodsThermoDAI was developed as the sum of Thermographic Joint Inflammation Score (ThermoJIS), a novel joint inflammation score based on the analysis of thermal images of the hands by machine learning, the Patient Global Assessment (PGA) and, for ThermoDAI-CRP, the C reactive protein (CRP). Construct validity was tested in 146 patients with RA by using Spearman's correlation with ultrasound-determined grey-scale synovial hypertrophy (GS) and power Doppler (PD) scores, CDAI, SDAI and DAS28-CRP.ResultsCorrelations of ultrasound scores with ThermoDAI (GS=0.52; PD=0.56) and ThermoDAI-CRP (GS=0.58; PD=0.61) were moderate to strong, while the correlations of ultrasound scores with PGA (GS=0.35; PD=0.39) and PGA+CRP (GS=0.44; PD=0.46) were weak to moderate. ThermoDAI and ThermoDAI-CRP also showed strong correlations with Clinical Disease Activity Index (rho>0.83), Simplified Disease Activity Index (rho>0.85) and Disease Activity Score with 28-Joint Counts-CRP (rho>0.81) and high sensitivity for detecting active synovitis using remission criteria.ConclusionsThermoDAI and ThermoDAI-CRP showed stronger correlations with ultrasound-determined synovitis than PGA and PGA + CRP, thus presenting an opportunity to improve remote consultations with patients with RA.
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MORALES-IVORRA, Isabel, NARVÁEZ, Javier, GÓMEZ VAQUERO, Carmen, MORAGUES, Carmen, NOLLA SOLÉ, Joan miquel, NARVÁEZ, José a., MARÍN LÓPEZ, Manuel alejandro. A Thermographic Disease Activity Index for remote assessment of rheumatoid arthritis. _RMD Open_. 2022. Vol. 8, núm. 2, pàgs. e002615. [consulta: 24 de gener de 2026]. ISSN: 2054-824X. [Disponible a: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/224136]