Automatic spinal cord localization, robust to MRI contrasts using global curve optimization

The spinal cord (SC) plays a key role in the central nervous system by ensuring the conduction of both motor and sensory signaling between the brain and the peripheral nervous systems. Although SC magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has long been technically challenging, MRI has been increasingly used in the last two decades to provide valuable quantitative information through SC morphometry (Papinutto et al. 2015; Fradet et al. 2014; Martin, De Leener, Cohen-Adad, Cadotte, Kalsi-Ryan, Lange, Tetreault, Nouri, Crawley, Mikulis, and Others 2017) and to evaluate SC damage a range of neurologic disorders such as multiple sclerosis, traumatic, and neurodegenerative diseases (J.

Source: Medical Image Analysis - December 5, 2017 Category: Radiology Authors: Charley Gros, Benjamin De Leener, Sara M. Dupont, Allan R. Martin, Michael G. Fehlings, Rohit Bakshi, Subhash Tummala, Vincent Auclair, Donald G. McLaren, Virginie Callot, Julien Cohen-Adad, Micha ël Sdika Source Type: research