Title
Automatic spinal cord localization, robust to MRI contrasts using global curve optimization.
Abstract
•Automatic, fast and robust method to detect the center of the spinal cord on MRI data.•Machine learning based method followed by a global curve optimization.•Brain and spine regions are automatically separated at the pontomedullary junction.•Validation on 804 images, 4 contrasts, 20 centers, large amount of patients.•Better results compared to a state-of-the-art technique.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1016/j.media.2017.12.001
Medical Image Analysis
Keywords
Field
DocType
Spinal cord,MRI,Detection,Segmentation,Global optimization,Machine learning
Spinal cord,Computer vision,Pattern recognition,Hough transform,Image processing,Mean squared error,Wilcoxon signed-rank test,Contrast (statistics),Artificial intelligence,Probabilistic logic,Split-brain,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
44
1361-8415
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.40
12
12