The accurate diagnosis of spinal pathologies depends heavily on radiological interpretation, yet automated systems are hindered by the lack of diverse, high-quality benchmarks. In this study, we present PhenSPINE, a Magnetic Resonance Imaging dataset comprising 16,813 images from 250 patients, curated to facilitate advanced deep learning research.
arXiv:2606. 08897v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Spinal pathology is a leading cause of pain and disability worldwide.
By Zhiping Xiao, Junwei Yang, Gongbo Sun, Han Zhang, Hanwen Xu, Yi Yao, Zachary D. Miller, William E. King III, Mohammed M. Kanani, Jalal B. Andre, Sammy Chu, Ming Zhang, Paul E. Kinahan, Nathan M. Cross, Sheng Wang
GateSPINE is a vision‑language framework designed for automated lumbar spine MRI report generation. It fuses sagittal T1 and T2 volumes using a training‑free gated cross‑view fusion module, then encodes the fused sagittal and axial volumes with parallel 3D encoders before decoding the combined representation into a report. Evaluated on three datasets, GateSPINE achieves the highest clinical efficacy F1 scores, improving recall across all datasets while remaining competitive on standard natural language generation metrics.
By Hoang Nguyen Van, Cuong Vuong Tuan, Trang Mai Xuan, Bien Tran Van, Nam Tran Van, Thien Van Luong
arXiv:2610.00279v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The segmentation of anatomical structures in medical images and particularly in MRI scans, is essential for clinical diagnosis and monitoring disease p...
By Eirini Cholopoulou, Dimitrios E. Diamantis, Dimitris K. Iakovidis
Automated assessment of degenerative pathology in the lumbar spine on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) requires access to large-scale datasets of expert-annotated radiological gradings. In contrast, segmentation pseudo-labels can be generated by automated tools at negligible radiologist cost.
The paper presents a systematic comparison of recurrent neural networks and Transformer models for iterative diffusion MRI tractography, focusing on training strategies, input representations, and hyperparameter tuning. It introduces a generation‑validation phase that provides streamline‑level supervision, enabling the models to achieve the best performance reported on the ISMRM2015 challenge dataset. The study also evaluates the effects of missing bundles, noisy training data, and invalid fibers, and demonstrates applicability to in‑vivo data from the Tractoinferno database.
By Emmanuelle Renauld, Philippe Poulin, Hugo Larochelle, Antoine Th\'eberge, Maxime Descoteaux