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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2022

Localization and Edge-Based Segmentation of Lumbar Spine Vertebrae to Identify the Deformities Using Deep Learning Models.

Malaika Mushtaq, Muhammad Usman Akram, Norah Saleh Alghamdi, Joddat Fatima, Rao Farhat Masood

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.

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5 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Malaika MushtaqDepartment of Computer and Software Engineering, National University of Sciences and Technology, Islamabad 44000, Pakistan.
Muhammad Usman AkramDepartment of Computer and Software Engineering, National University of Sciences and Technology, Islamabad 44000, Pakistan.
Norah Saleh AlghamdiDepartment of Computer Sciences, College of Computer and Information Sciences, Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University, P.O. Box 84428, Riyadh 11671, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0001-6421-6001
Joddat FatimaDepartment of Computer Science, Bahria University, Islamabad 44000, Pakistan.
Rao Farhat MasoodDepartment of Electrical Engineering, Capital University of Science and Technology, Islamabad 44000, Pakistan.ORCID 0000-0001-9054-9192
National University of Sciences and Technology · PKBahria University · PKCapital University of Science and Technology · PKPrincess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University · SA

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Abstract

The lumbar spine plays a very important role in our load transfer and mobility. Vertebrae localization and segmentation are useful in detecting spinal deformities and fractures. Understanding of automated medical imagery is of main importance to help doctors in handling the time-consuming manual or semi-manual diagnosis. Our paper presents the methods that will help clinicians to grade the severity of the disease with confidence, as the current manual diagnosis by different doctors has dissimilarity and variations in the analysis of diseases. In this paper we discuss the lumbar spine localization and segmentation which help for the analysis of lumbar spine deformities. The lumber spine is localized using YOLOv5 which is the fifth variant of the YOLO family. It is the fastest and the lightest object detector. Mean average precision (mAP) of 0.975 is achieved by YOLOv5. To diagnose the lumbar lordosis, we correlated the angles with region area that is computed from the YOLOv5 centroids and obtained 74.5% accuracy. Cropped images from YOLOv5 bounding boxes are passed through HED U-Net, which is a combination of segmentation and edge detection frameworks, to obtain the segmented vertebrae and its edges. Lumbar lordortic angles (LLAs) and lumbosacral angles (LSAs) are found after detecting the corners of vertebrae using a Harris corner detector with very small mean errors of 0.29° and 0.38°, respectively. This paper compares the different object detectors used to localize the vertebrae, the results of two methods used to diagnose the lumbar deformity, and the results with other researchers.

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Deep LearningLumbar VertebraeLumbosacral RegionSpinedeep learningedge-based segmentationlocalizationlumbar lordortic anglelumbar spinelumbosacral angle

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