Direct Estimation of Spinal Cobb Angles by Structured Multi-output Regression

• Published in: Information Processing in Medical Imaging Vol. 10265; pp. 529 - 540
• Main Author: Niethammer, Marc
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland Springer International Publishing AG 2017; Springer International Publishing
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
• Subjects: Baseline Method; Cobb Angle; Relative Root Mean Square Error; Support Vector Regression; Support Vector Regression Model

The Cobb angle that quantitatively evaluates the spinal curvature plays an important role in the scoliosis diagnosis and treatment. Conventional measurement of these angles suffers from huge variability and low reliability due to intensive manual intervention. However, since there exist high ambigui...