Tala Almuqasqas

Automated Detection of Lumbar Spinal Stenosis via Semantic Segmentation of the Area Between the Anterior and Posterior Elements in MRI Images

This paper proposes a novel methodology to help clinicians automatically diagnose spinal stenosis, one of the leading causes of chronic lower back pain (CLBP), from lumbar spine Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scans. The approach mirrors standard clinical practice, in which spinal canal stenosis is diagnosed by manual...