About the Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Arthritis Working Group

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) allows objective assessment of both inflammation (disease activity) and damage in arthritic diseases, such as rheumatoid arthritis (RA), psoriatic arthritis (PsA) and osteoarthritis (OA). MRI provides important insights into how these diseases progress and very importantly for OMERACT it provides objective measures of response to treatments, as clinical examination findings of tender and swollen joints can be quite unreliable.

MRI is therefore now frequently used as an outcome measure across rheumatology clinical trials. The OMERACT MRI in Arthritis Working Group has been instrumental in this. The group has developed and validated the OMERACT rheumatoid arthritis MRI score (RAMRIS), evaluating the key features of activity and damage in the joints; this method is now the standard used in RA trials using MRI. Furthermore, the group has developed and validated a psoriatic arthritis (PsA) MRI scoring method (PsAMRIS), a hand osteoarthritis (OA) MRI scoring system (HOAMRIS), including a dedicated system for the thumb base (TOMS), a whole-body MRI scoring system allowing assessment of all peripheral joints and entheses (WBMRI WIPE), an enthesitis scoring system (HEMRIS) and a digital overlay-based scoring system of MRI lesions in OA of the hips and knees (HIMRISS and KIMRISS).

Since OMERACT in 2018, the group has continued its work within MRI of enthesitis and whole-body MRI MRI in spondyloarthritis and psoriatic arthritis and within osteoarthritis of the hand, hip and knee. Data from these activities will be presented at OMERACT in Colorado Springs, USA, in April 2020

paul bird

Paul Bird

Co-Chair

Philip Conaghan

Philip Conaghan

Co-Chair

Mikkel Ostergaard

Mikkel Ostergaard

Co-Chair

Charles Peterfy

Charles Peterfy

Co-Chair

Simone Willesen

Fellow

corpskar@gmail.com

Kara Corps

Patient Research Partner

Working Group Publications

Volumetric quantitative measurement of hip effusions by manual versus automated artificial intelligence techniques: An OMERACT preliminary validation study

The OMERACT Knee Inflammation MRI Scoring System: Validation of quantitative methodologies and tri-compartmental overlays in osteoarthritis

Reliability and agreement of proton density-weighted vs. gadolinium-enhanced T1-weighted MRI in hand osteoarthritis. An OMERACT MRI special interest group reliability exercise

Joint and entheseal inflammation in the knee region in spondyloarthritis - reliability and responsiveness of two OMERACT whole-body MRI scores

Arthritis and enthesitis in the hip and pelvis region in spondyloarthritis - OMERACT validation of two whole body MRI methods

Longitudinal Reliability of the OMERACT Thumb Base Osteoarthritis Magnetic Resonance Imaging Scoring System (TOMS)

OMERACT Hip Inflammation Magnetic Resonance Imaging Scoring System (HIMRISS) Assessment in Longitudinal Study

Validity and Responsiveness of Combined Inflammation and Combined Joint Damage Scores based on the OMERACT Rheumatoid Arthritis MRI Scoring System (RAMRIS)

Utility of Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Diagnosis and Monitoring Enthesitis in Patients with Spondyloarthritis: An OMERACT Systematic Literature Review

Development and Validation of an OMERACT MRI Whole-Body Score for Inflammation in Peripheral Joints and Entheses in Inflammatory Arthritis (MRI-WIPE)

The OMERACT MRI in Enthesitis Initiative: Definitions of Key Pathologies, Suggested MRI Sequences, and a Novel Heel Enthesitis Scoring System

Development and Validation of the OMERACT Rheumatoid Arthritis Magnetic Resonance Tenosynovitis Scoring System in a Multireader Exercise

Development and Reliability of the OMERACT Thumb Base Osteoarthritis Magnetic Resonance Imaging Scoring System

The OMERACT Rheumatoid Arthritis Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Scoring System: Updated Recommendations by the OMERACT MRI in Arthritis Working Group 

Validation of a Knowledge Transfer Tool According to the OMERACT Filter: Does Web-based Real-time Iterative Calibration Enhance the Evaluation of Bone Marrow Lesions in Hip Osteoarthritis?

Validation of a Knowledge Transfer Tool for the Knee Inflammation MRI Scoring System for Bone Marrow Lesions According to the OMERACT Filter: Data from the Osteoarthritis Initiative

The OMERACT MRI in Arthritis Working Group – Update on status and future research priorities

Validation of the OMERACT Psoriatic Arthritis Magnetic Resonance Imaging Score (PsAMRIS) for the Hand and Foot in a Randomized Placebo-controlled Trial 

Validation of the OMERACT Magnetic Resonance Imaging Joint Space Narrowing score (RAMRIS-JSN) for the wrist in a multi-reader longitudinal trial

The Longitudinal Reliability and Responsiveness of the OMERACT Hand Osteoarthritis Magnetic Resonance Imaging Scoring System (HOAMRIS) 

Development of Image Overlay and Knowledge Transfer Module Technologies Aimed at Enhancing Feasibility and External Validation of MRI-based Scoring Systems

Development and Preliminary Validation of a Digital Overlay-based Learning Module for Semiquantitative Evaluation of Magnetic Resonance Imaging Lesions in Osteoarthritis of the Hip

Update on the OMERACT MRI Task Force: Research and Future Directions 

The OMERACT-RAMRIS RA MRI Joint Space Narrowing Score: Intrareader and Interreader Reliability and Agreement with CT and Conventional Radiography 

Determining a MRI Inflammatory Activity Acceptable State Without Subsequent Radiographic Progression in RA: Results from a Followup MRI Study of 254 Patients in Clinical Remission or Low Disease Activity 

Iterative Development and Reliability of the OMERACT Hand OA MRI Scoring System

Methodologies for Semiquantitative Evaluation of Hip OA fby MRI: Approaches Based on the Whole Organ and Focused on Active Lesions 

Preliminary Validation of 2 MRI Scoring Systems for OA of the Hip According to the OMERACT Filter

Development and Preliminary Validation of a Magnetic Resonance Imaging Joint Space Narrowing Score for Use in Rheumatoid Arthritis: Potential Adjunct to the OMERACT RA MRI Scoring System

Update on Research and Future Directions of the OMERACT MRI Inflammatory Arthritis Group 

Patterns of Magnetic Resonance Imaging Bone Erosion in Rheumatoid Arthritis — Which Bones Are Most Frequently Involved and Show the Most Change?

Damage and Progression on Radiographs in Individual Joints: Data from Pivotal Randomized Controlled Trials 

Synovitis and Osteitis Are Very Frequent in Rheumatoid Arthritis Clinical Remission: Results from an MRI Study of 294 Patients in Clinical Remission or Low Disease Activity State 

The OMERACT Psoriatic Arthritis Magnetic Resonance Imaging Score (PsAMRIS) Is Reliable and Sensitive to Change: Results from an OMERACT Workshop

The OMERACT MRI Inflammatory Arthritis Group: Advances and Future Research Priorities

Reducing Invasiveness, Duration, and Cost of MRI in RA by Omitting IV Contrast Injection — Does It Change the Assessment of Inflammatory and Destructive Joint Changes by the OMERACT RAMRIS?

Testing an OMERACT MRI Scoring System for Peripheral PsA in Cross-sectional and Longitudinal Settings

The OMERACT PsA MRI Scoring System (PsAMRIS): Definitions of Key Pathologies, Suggested MRI Sequences, and Preliminary Scoring System for PsA Hands

The OMERACT MRI Inflammatory Arthritis Group — Advances and Priorities

A Multireader Reliability Study Comparing Conventional High-Field MRI with Extremity Low-Field MRI in RA 

A Multicenter Reliability Study of Extremity-MRI in the Longitudinal Evaluation of RA

Developing a MRI Scoring System for Peripheral Psoriatic Arthritis

Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Rheumatoid Arthritis — Advances and Research Priorities 

The Evidence for Magnetic Resonance Imaging as an Outcome Measure in Proof-of-Concept Rheumatoid Arthritis Studies

OMERACT RA MRI Studies Module

OMERACT RA MRI Studies. Exercise 3: An International Multicenter Reliability Study Using the RA-MRI Score

OMERACT RA MRI Studies. Exercise 4: An International Multicenter Longitudinal Study Using the RA-MRI Score

OMERACT RA MRI Studies. Exercise 5: An International Multicenter Reliability Study Using Computerized MRI Erosion Volume Measurements

OMERACT RA MRI Studies. Core Set of MRI Acquisitions, Joint Pathology Definitions, and the OMERACT RA-MRI Scoring System

OMERACT RA MRI Studies. Summary of OMERACT 6 MRI Module

Interreader Agreement in the Assessment of MRI of RA Wrist and Finger Joint--An International Multicenter Study

Measurement of RA Disease Activity and Damage Using MRI. Truth and Discrimination: Does MRI Make the Grade?

Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Rheumatoid Arthritis: Summary of OMERACT Activities, Current Status, and Plans

OMERACT 5 Magnetic Resonance Imaging Module: Introduction

MRI in RA Current Status and Future Directions

Working Group Members:

Adrien Nzeusseu Toukap
Ahmed Elsaman
Alan Cavalcante
Allen Anandarajah
Angie Botto-van Bemden
Anna-Birgitte Aga
Anupam Wakhlu
Ashish Mathew
Aya Akmal Amin
Bo Jannik Ejbjerg
Catherine Hofstetter
Charles Peterfy
Daniel Glinatsi
Dario Camellino
David Hunter
Elia Valls Pascual
Espen Haavardsholm
Feline Kroon
Francis Guillemin
Gary Choque
Hemalatha Srinivasalu

Ida Kristin Haugen
Inna Gaydukova
Ionut Pintilie
Iris Eshed
Isabella Fumagalli
Jacob Jaremko
Javier Rios
Joao Dias
John Carrino
John Waterton
Kara Corps
Karen Natali Saravia Chocobar
Karine Toupin April
Kay-Geert Hermann
Khaled Abdelgalil
Khaled Saadaoui
Laura Coates
Lyn March
Maria Simona Stoenoiu
Maria Teresa Romero de Albrecht
Marie Wetterslev

Marita Cross
Maxine Isbel
Meaghan Pitts
Michel Yazbek
Mikael Boesen
Mikkel Østergaard
Mustafa Serdar Cantez
Nino Tsiskarishvili
Olga Kubassova
Oliver Krämer
Olympia Papakonstantinou
Omar Azmat
Panagiotis Ermeidis
Patricia Hurley
Patrick Durez
Paul Bird
Pedro Machado
Pernille Boyesen
Peter Tugwell
Philip Conaghan
Philip Mease

Philippe Carron
Raouf Hajji
Rob Lambert
"Sarah Hewlett"
Signe Kaas Moeller-Bisgaard
Simon Krabbe
Simone Willesen
Siri Lillegraven
SOUHIL ZAIM
Soumya Chakravarty
Stacey Grealis
Susanne Juhl Pedersen
Tamer Gheita
Thasia Woodworth
Ulf Sundin
Ulrich Weber
Walter Maksymowych
Win Min Oo
Yasser Emad
Yasser Ragab
Yeonhew Kim

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