Automatic Lumbar Spinal CT Image Segmentation With a Dual Densely Connected U-Net

The clinical treatment of degenerative and developmental lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS) is different. Computed tomography (CT) is helpful in distinguishing degenerative and developmental LSS due to its advantage in imaging osseous and calcified tissues. However, boundaries of the vertebral body, spina...

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Main Authors: He Tang, Xiaobing Pei, Shilong Huang, Xin Li, Chao Liu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IEEE 2020-01-01
Series:IEEE Access
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Online Access:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9091133/