The Comparison of Convolutional Neural Networks and the Manual Measurement of Cobb Angle in Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis.
Xianming HuangMing LuoLimin LiuDiwei WuXuanhe YouZhipeng DengPeng XiuXi YangChunguang ZhouGanjun FengLei WangZhong-Jie ZhouJipeng FanMingjie HeZhongjun GaoLixin PuZhihong WuZong-Ke ZhouYue-Ming SongShishu HuangPublished in: Global spine journal (2022)
The fully automated framework not only identifies the vertebral boundaries, vertebral sequences, the upper/lower end vertebras and apical vertebra, but also calculates the Cobb angle of PT, MT, and TL/L curves sequentially. The framework would shed new light on the assessment of AIS curvature.