White matter lesion (WML) segmentation applied to magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans of people with multiple sclerosis has been an area of extensive research in recent years. As with most tasks in medical imaging, deep learning (DL) methods have proven very effective and have quickly replaced existing methods. Despite the improvement offered by these networks, there are still shortcomings with these DL approaches. In this work, we compare several DL algorithms, as well as methods for ensembling the results of those algorithms, for performing MS lesion segmentation. An ensemble approach is shown to best estimate total WML and has the highest agreement with manual delineations.
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