Automatic Labeling of Vertebral Levels Using a Robust Template-Based Approach

Context. MRI of the spinal cord provides a variety of biomarkers sensitive to white matter integrity and neuronal function. Current processing methods are based on manual labeling of vertebral levels, which is time consuming and prone to user bias. Although several methods for automatic labeling hav...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Eugénie Ullmann, Jean François Pelletier Paquette, William E. Thong, Julien Cohen-Adad
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2014-01-01
Series:International Journal of Biomedical Imaging
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/719520