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EPISeg: Automated segmentation of the spinal cord on echo planar images using open-access multi-center data.

Rohan Banerjee, Merve Kaptan, Alexandra Tinnermann, Ali Khatibi, Alice Dabbagh, Christian Büchel, Christian W Kündig, Christine S W Law, Dario Pfyffer, David J Lythgoe and 31 more

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Rohan BanerjeeDepartment of Computer Science, Polytechnique Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.ORCID 0000-0001-8492-6959
Merve KaptanDivision of Pain Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA, United States.ORCID 0000-0001-8187-4911
Alexandra TinnermannDepartment of Systems Neuroscience, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-9646-0201
Ali KhatibiMcConnell Brain Imaging Center, Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.ORCID 0000-0003-0679-0499
Alice DabbaghMax Planck Research Group Pain Perception, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany.ORCID 0009-0005-9515-6810
Christian BüchelDepartment of Systems Neuroscience, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany.
Christian W KündigSpinal Cord Injury Center, Balgrist University Hospital, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.ORCID 0009-0007-0351-6108
Christine S W LawDivision of Pain Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-0524-6029
Dario PfyfferDivision of Pain Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-2406-9251
David J LythgoeDepartment of Neuroimaging, Institute of Psychology, Psychiatry & Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-5078-9025
Dimitra TsivakaDepartment of Neuroimaging, Institute of Psychology, Psychiatry & Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-4584-0236
Dimitri Van De VilleDepartment of Radiology and Medical Informatics, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-2879-3861
Falk EippertMax Planck Research Group Pain Perception, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-3986-1719
Fauziyya MuhammadDepartment of Neurosurgery, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, OK, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-0028-0375
Gary H GloverRadiological Sciences Laboratory, Department of Radiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-0562-0474
Gergely DavidSpinal Cord Injury Center, Balgrist University Hospital, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-9379-5193
Grace HaynesStephenson School of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Oklahoma in Norman, OK, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-4862-0554
Jan HaakerDepartment of Systems Neuroscience, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-8366-9559
Jonathan C W BrooksDepartment of Psychology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0003-3335-6209
Jürgen FinsterbuschDepartment of Systems Neuroscience, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany.
Katherine T MartucciCenter for Translational Pain Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7791-2492
Kimberly J HemmerlingDepartment of Physical Therapy and Human Movement Sciences, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-9913-492X
Mahdi Mobarak-AbadiCentre de recherche de l'Institut Universitaire de Gériatrie de Montréal, Montréal, Quebec, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-2114-9416
Mark A HoggarthDepartment of Physical Therapy and Human Movement Sciences, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-6516-5840
Matthew A HowardDepartment of Neuroimaging, Institute of Psychology, Psychiatry & Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-9359-3057
Molly G BrightDepartment of Physical Therapy and Human Movement Sciences, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-7257-9646
Nawal KinanyDepartment of Radiology and Medical Informatics, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0003-3804-0991
Olivia S KowalczykFunctional Imaging Laboratory, Department of Imaging Neuroscience, Queen Square Institute of Neurology, University College London, London, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-6543-290X
Patrick FreundSpinal Cord Injury Center, Balgrist University Hospital, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-4851-2246
Robert L BarryAthinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA, USA.
Sean MackeyDivision of Pain Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA, United States.ORCID 0000-0001-7744-5348
Shahabeddin VahdatMcConnell Brain Imaging Center, Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-0494-6974
Simon SchadingSpinal Cord Injury Center, Balgrist University Hospital, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0003-3969-193X
Stephen B McMahonWolfson Centre for Age Related Diseases, King's College London, London UK.
Todd ParishDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, McCormick School of Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA.
Véronique Marchand-PauvertSorbonne Université, Inserm, CNRS, Laboratoire d'Imagerie Biomédicale, LIB, F-75013, Paris, France.
Yufen ChenDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, McCormick School of Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-8959-9571
Zachary A SmithDepartment of Neurosurgery, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, OK, USA.
Kenneth A WeberDivision of Pain Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-0916-9174
Benjamin De LeenerDepartment of Computer Science, Polytechnique Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-1378-2756
Julien Cohen-AdadMila - Quebec AI Institute, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.ORCID 0000-0003-3662-9532

Funding

Characterization of central pain mechanisms using simultaneous spinal cord-brain functional imagingR01NS109450 · NINDS · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI GLOVER, GARY H, MACKEY, SEAN C · 2018 to 2022
$2.9M
Spinal cord functional connectivity as a biomarker of spinal cord dysfunctionR01EB027779 · NIBIB · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI BARRY, ROBERT L · 2019 to 2022
$2.7M
Dermatomal Mapping with Spinal Cord Functional Magnetic Resonance ImagingR01NS133305 · NINDS · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI Kenneth Arnold Weber · 2023 to 2026
$2.3M
MRI-Derived Neuromuscular Signatures to Predict Surgical Response in Degenerative Cervical MyelopathyR01NS128478 · NINDS · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI Kenneth Arnold Weber · 2023 to 2026
$2.2M
Neuroimaging-Based Brain and Spinal Cord Biomarkers for Cervical RadiculopathyK23NS104211 · NINDS · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI WEBER, KENNETH ARNOLD · 2018 to 2022
$875k
The Impact of Opioids on Chronic Pain: Clinical Research and Career Training in Spinal Cord fMRI and Brain Reward SystemsR00DA040154 · NIDA · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI MARTUCCI, KATHERINE THERESA · 2018 to 2021
$827k
Causal connectivity along the spinal cord using high-resolution 7T fMRIR21EB031211 · NIBIB · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI BARRY, ROBERT L · 2021 to 2021
$462k
Mentoring in Discovery and Validation of Clinical Chronic Pain BiomarkersK24NS126781 · NINDS · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI MACKEY, SEAN C · 2021 to 2021
$324k
Investigating Pain Processing in the Brain, Brainstem, and Spinal Cord with fMRIF32AT007800 · NCCIH · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO · PI WEBER, KENNETH ARNOLD · 2012 to 2015
$198k
NCCIH NIH HHS F32 AT007800NIBIB NIH HHS R01 EB027779NIBIB NIH HHS R21 EB031211NIDA NIH HHS R00 DA040154NINDS NIH HHS K23 NS104211NINDS NIH HHS K24 NS126781NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS109450NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS128478NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS133305
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Abstract

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) of the spinal cord is relevant for studying sensation, movement, and autonomic function. Preprocessing of spinal cord fMRI data involves segmentation of the spinal cord on gradient-echo echo planar imaging (EPI) images. Current automated segmentation methods do not work well on these data, due to the low spatial resolution, susceptibility artifacts causing distortions and signal drop-out, ghosting, and motion-related artifacts. Consequently, this segmentation task demands a considerable amount of manual effort which takes time and is prone to user bias. In this work, we (i) gathered a multi-center dataset of spinal cord gradient-echo EPI with ground-truth segmentations and shared it on OpenNeuro https://openneuro.org/datasets/ds005143/versions/1.3.0, and (ii) developed a deep learning-based model, EPISeg, for the automatic segmentation of the spinal cord on gradient-echo EPI data. We observe a significant improvement in terms of segmentation quality compared to other available spinal cord segmentation models. Our model is resilient to different acquisition protocols as well as commonly observed artifacts in fMRI data. The training code is available at https://github.com/sct-pipeline/fmri-segmentation/, and the model has been integrated into the Spinal Cord Toolbox as a command-line tool.

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Echo Planar ImagingFunctional Magnetic Resonance ImagingSegmentationSpinal Cord

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