Computational Methods and Clinical Applications for Spine Imaging

- Preface

- Workshop Organization

- Segmentation I (CT): Segmentation of vertebrae from 3D spine images by applying concepts from transportation and game theories, by Bulat Ibragimov, Bostjan Likar, Franjo Pernus, Tomaz Vrtovec

- Automatic and Reliable Segmentation of Spinal Canals in Low-Resolution, Low-Contrast CT Images, by Qian Wang, Le Lu, Diji Wu, Noha El-Zehiry, Dinggang Shen, Kevin Zhou

- A Robust Segmentation Framework for Spine Trauma Diagnosis, by Poay Hoon Lim, Ulas Bagci, Li Bai

- 2D-PCA based Tensor Level Set Framework for Vertebral Body Segmentation, by Ahmed Shalaby, Aly Farag, Melih Aslan

- Computer Aided Detection and Diagnosis: Computer Aided Detection of Spinal Degenerative Osteophytes on Sodium Fluoride PET/CT, by Jianhua Yao, Hector Munoz , Joseph Burns, Le Lu , Ronald Summers

- Novel Morphological and Appearance Features for Predicting Physical Disability from MR Images in Multiple Sclerosis Patients, by Jeremy Kawahara, Chris McIntosh, Roger Tam, Ghassan Hamarneh

- Classification of Spinal Deformities using a Parametric Torsion Estimator, by Jesse Shen, Stefan Parent, Samuel Kadoury

- Lumbar Spine Disc Herniation Diagnosis with a Joint Shape Model, by Raja Alomari, Vipin Chaudhary, Jason Corso, Gurmeet Dhillon

- Epidural Masses Detection on Computed Tomography Using Spatially-Constrained Gaussian Mixture Models, by Sanket Pattanaik, Jiamin Liu, Jianhua Yao, Weidong Zhang, Evrim Turkbey, Xiao Zhang, Ronald Summers

- Quantitative Imaging: Comparison of manual and computerized measurements of sagittal vertebral inclination in MR images, by Tomaz Vrtovec, Franjo Pernus, Bostjan Likar

- Eigenspine: Eigenvector Analysis of Spinal Deformities in Idiopathic Scoliosis, by Daniel Forsberg, Claes Lundström, Mats Andersson, Hans Knutsson

- Quantitative Monitoring of Syndesmophyte Growth in Ankylosing Spondylitis Using Computed Tomography, by Sovira Tan, Jianhua Yao, Lawrence Yao, Michael Ward

- A Semi-automatic