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Age prediction is an important part of medical assessments and research. It can aid in detecting diseases as well as abnormal ageing by highlighting potential discrepancies between chronological and biological age. To improve understanding…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-28 Sophie Starck , Yadunandan Vivekanand Kini , Jessica Johanna Maria Ritter , Rickmer Braren , Daniel Rueckert , Tamara Mueller

Bone age assessment is a task performed daily in hospitals worldwide. This involves a clinician estimating the age of a patient from a radiograph of the non-dominant hand. Our approach to automated bone age assessment is to modularise the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-06-19 Anthony Bagnall , Luke Davis

Radiographs are used as the most important imaging tool for identifying spine anomalies in clinical practice. The evaluation of spinal bone lesions, however, is a challenging task for radiologists. This work aims at developing and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-25 Hieu T. Nguyen , Hieu H. Pham , Nghia T. Nguyen , Ha Q. Nguyen , Thang Q. Huynh , Minh Dao , Van Vu

The differential diagnosis of neurodegenerative diseases, characterized by overlapping symptoms, may be challenging. Brain imaging coupled with artificial intelligence has been previously proposed for diagnostic support, but most of these…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-21 Pierrick Coupé , Boris Mansencal , José V. Manjón , Patrice Péran , Wassilios G. Meissner , Thomas Tourdias , Vincent Planche

This paper presents a large publicly available multi-center lumbar spine magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) dataset with reference segmentations of vertebrae, intervertebral discs (IVDs), and spinal canal. The dataset includes 447 sagittal T1…

Recent evidence has shown that structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is an effective tool for Alzheimer's disease (AD) prediction and diagnosis. While traditional MRI-based diagnosis uses images acquired at a single time point, a…

Applications · Statistics 2021-11-02 Xiaowu Dai

We propose a novel convolutional method for the detection and identification of vertebrae in whole spine MRIs. This involves using a learnt vector field to group detected vertebrae corners together into individual vertebral bodies and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-14 Rhydian Windsor , Amir Jamaludin , Timor Kadir , Andrew Zisserman

The most common reason for spinal surgery in elderly patients is lumbar spinal stenosis(LSS). For LSS, treatment decisions based on clinical and radiological information as well as personal experience of the surgeon shows large variance.…

Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly being utilized to optimize magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) protocols. Given that image details are critical for diagnostic accuracy, optimizing MRI acquisition protocols is essential for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Alice Vian , Diego Andre Eifer , Mauricio Anes , Guilherme Ribeiro Garcia , Mariana Recamonde-Mendoza

Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS), a prevalent spinal deformity, significantly affects individuals' health and quality of life. Conventional imaging techniques, such as X - rays, computed tomography (CT), and magnetic resonance imaging…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-13 Fujiao Ju , Yuxuan Wang , Shuo Wang , Chengyin Wang , Yinbo Chen , Jianfeng Li , Mingjie Dong , Bin Fang , Qianyu Zhuang

Predicting brain maturity using noninvasive magnetic resonance images (MRI) can distinguish different age groups and help to assess neurodevelopmental disorders. However, group-wise differences are often less informative for assessing…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2014-12-17 Cheol E. Han , Luis R. Peraza , John-Paul Taylor , Marcus Kaiser

Gray matter (GM) tissue changes have been associated with a wide range of neurological disorders and was also recently found relevant as a biomarker for disability in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. The ability to automatically segment the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-22 Christian S. Perone , Evan Calabrese , Julien Cohen-Adad

Scoliosis is a congenital disease in which the spine is deformed from its normal shape. Measurement of scoliosis requires labeling and identification of vertebrae in the spine. Spine radiographs are the most cost-effective and accessible…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-16 Abdullah-Al-Zubaer Imran , Chao Huang , Hui Tang , Wei Fan , Kenneth M. C. Cheung , Michael To , Zhen Qian , Demetri Terzopoulos

Bone age assessment gives us evidence to analyze the children growth status and the rejuvenation involved chronological and biological ages. All the previous works consider left-hand X-ray image of a child in their works. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-30 Hai-Duong Nguyen , Soo-Hyung Kim

The determination of biological brain age is a crucial biomarker in the assessment of neurological disorders and understanding of the morphological changes that occur during aging. Various machine learning models have been proposed for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-12 Mansoor Ahmed , Usama Sardar , Sarwan Ali , Shafiq Alam , Murray Patterson , Imdad Ullah Khan

MRI is preferred over CT in paediatric imaging because it avoids ionising radiation, but its use in spine deformity assessment is largely limited by the lack of automated, high-resolution 3D bony reconstruction, which continues to rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Nathasha Naranpanawa , Maree T. Izatt , Robert D. Labrom , Geoffrey N. Askin , J. Paige Little

Vertebral labelling and segmentation are two fundamental tasks in an automated spine processing pipeline. Reliable and accurate processing of spine images is expected to benefit clinical decision-support systems for diagnosis, surgery…

Dementia, a debilitating neurological condition affecting millions worldwide, presents significant diagnostic challenges. In this work, we introduce DEFORMISE, a novel DEep learning Framework for dementia diagnOsis of eldeRly patients using…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-21 Nikolaos Ntampakis , Konstantinos Diamantaras , Ioanna Chouvarda , Vasileios Argyriou , Panagiotis Sarigianndis

The high prevalence of spinal stenosis results in a large volume of MRI imaging, yet interpretation can be time-consuming with high inter-reader variability even among the most specialized radiologists. In this paper, we develop an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-27 Jen-Tang Lu , Stefano Pedemonte , Bernardo Bizzo , Sean Doyle , Katherine P. Andriole , Mark H. Michalski , R. Gilberto Gonzalez , Stuart R. Pomerantz

Scoliosis is traditionally assessed based solely on 2D lateral deviations, but recent studies have also revealed the importance of other imaging planes in understanding the deformation of the spine. Consequently, extracting the spinal…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-03 Emmanuelle Bourigault , Amir Jamaludin , Andrew Zisserman