Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc
July 2022
Skeletal muscle volume has been mainly investigated under static conditions, i.e. isometric contractions.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: 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.