As both CPUs and GPUs become employed in a wide range of applications, it has been
acknowledged that both of these Processing Units (PUs) have their unique features and …

Spondylolisthesis refers to the displacement of a vertebral body relative to the vertrabra
below it, which can cause radicular symptoms, back pain or leg pain. It usually occurs in the …

Purpose Accurate vertebra detection and segmentation are essential steps for automating
the diagnosis of spinal disorders. This study is dedicated to vertebra alignment …

This work presents a new flexible parameterizable architecture for image and video
processing with reduced latency and memory requirements, supporting a variable input …

Multitask learning (MTL) has achieved notable progress in many medical applications. In
this article, we propose a multitask neural network, MRNet, for segmentation and spinal …

Vertebra segmentation from biplanar whole-spine radiographs is highly demanded in the
quantitative assessment of scoliosis and the resultant sagittal deformities. However …

Motion tracking algorithms are widely used in computer vision related research. However,
the new video standards, especially those in high resolutions, cause that current …

Automatically detecting vertebral bodies in X-Ray images is a very complex task, especially
because of the noise and the low contrast resulting in that kind of medical imagery modality …

Digital phenoty** is an emergent science mainly based on imagery techniques. The
tremendous amount of data generated needs important cloud computing for their …

Vertebra detection presents the first step of any automatic spinal column diagnosis. This task
becomes more difficult in the case of the cervical X-ray images characterized by their low …