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Multi-muscle deep learning segmentation to automate the quantification of muscle fat infiltration in cervical spine conditions. Scientific reports Weber, K. A., Abbott, R., Bojilov, V., Smith, A. C., Wasielewski, M., Hastie, T. J., Parrish, T. B., Mackey, S., Elliott, J. M. 2021; 11 (1): 16567

Abstract

Muscle fat infiltration (MFI) has been widely reported across cervical spine disorders. The quantification of MFI requires time-consuming and rater-dependent manual segmentation techniques. A convolutional neural network (CNN) model was trained to segment seven cervical spine muscle groups (left and right muscles segmented separately, 14 muscles total) from Dixon MRI scans (n?=?17, 17 scans ?0.300, p?=?0.001). CNN's allow for the accurate and rapid, quantitative assessment of the composition of the architecturally complex muscles traversing the cervical spine. Acknowledging the wider reports of MFI in cervical spine disorders and the time required to manually segment the individual muscles, this CNN may have diagnostic, prognostic, and predictive value in disorders of the cervical spine.

View details for DOI 10.1038/s41598-021-95972-x

View details for PubMedID 34400672