Abstract #2893

Examining Automatic Segmentation Results of Cervical Spinal Cord MRI in Tetraplegic Spinal Cord Injury

Patrik O Wyss^1,2,3, Mihael Abramovic¹, Alexander Fischer⁴, and Markus F Berger¹

¹Department of Radiology, Swiss Paraplegic Centre, Nottwil, Switzerland, ²Institute for Biomedical Engineering, ETH and University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, ³Max-Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tuebingen, Germany, ⁴Philips GmbH Innovative Technologies, Aachen, Germany

Accurate detection and segmentation of spinal levels are of utmost importance in determining tissue changes in follow-up examinations of spinal cord injury patients. This preliminary study shows the results of automatic segmentation algorithms applied to data of tetraplegic patients.

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