Intersliceboost: Identifying tissue layers in three-dimensional ultrasound images for chronic lower back pain (cLBP) assessment

• Published in: Medical physics (Lancaster) Vol. 52; no. 7; p. e17931
• Main Authors: Zeng, Zixue, Cartier, Matthew, Zhao, Xiaoyan, Chen, Pengyu, Meng, Xin, Sheng, Zhiyu, Satarpour, Maryam, Cormack, John M, Bean, Allison C, Nussbaum, Ryan P, Maurer, Maya, Landis-Walkenhorst, Emily, Kim, Kang, Wasan, Ajay D, Pu, Jiantao
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 01.07.2025
• Subjects: Chronic Pain - diagnostic imaging; Humans; Imaging, Three-Dimensional - methods; Low Back Pain - diagnostic imaging; Ultrasonography; generative adversarial networks; deep learning; continuous image translation; medical imaging segmentation; 3D ultrasound imaging; ultrasound image analysis; chronic lower back pain

Available studies on chronic lower back pain (cLBP) typically focus on one or a few specific tissues rather than conducting a comprehensive layer-by-layer analysis. Since three-dimensional (3-D) images often contain hundreds of slices, manual annotation of these anatomical structures is both time-co...