White matter lesions are non-static brain lesions that have a prevalence rate up to 98 percent in the elder population, although it is also present in the young population. Because it may be associated with several brain diseases, it is important to detect them as early as possible. Magnetic resonance imaging provides threedimensional data for visualization and analysis of soft tissues as it contains rich information about their anatomy. However, the amount of data acquired for these images may be too much for manual analysis/interpretation alone, representing a difficult and time-consuming task for specialists. Therefore, this doctoral thesis presents four new computational methods to automatically detect white matter lesions in magnetic resonance images, based mainly on algorithms SLIC0 and Convolutional Neural Networks. Our primary objective is to provide the necessary tools for specialists to accelerate their works and suggest a second opinion. From the four proposed methods, the one that achieved best results was applied on 91 magnetic resonance images, and achieved an accuracy of 97.93 percent, specificity of 98,02 percent and sensitivity of 90,12 percent, without using any candidate reduction techniques.