Publications by authors named "Annika Zanker"

Skeletal muscle volume has been mainly investigated under static conditions, i.e. isometric contractions.

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Purpose: Imaging studies about the relevance of muscles in spinal disorders, and sarcopenia in general, require the segmentation of the muscles in the images which is very labour-intensive if performed manually and poses a practical limit to the number of investigated subjects. This study aimed at developing a deep learning-based tool able to fully automatically perform an accurate segmentation of the lumbar muscles in axial MRI scans, and at validating the new tool on an external dataset.

Methods: A set of 60 axial MRI images of the lumbar spine was retrospectively collected from a clinical database.

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