Traumatic and nontraumatic spinal cord injury: pathological insights from neuroimaging

G David, S Mohammadi, AR Martin… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
Pathophysiological changes in the spinal cord white and grey matter resulting from injury
can be observed with MRI techniques. These techniques provide sensitive markers of …

Spinal cord MRI at 7T

RL Barry, SJ Vannesjo, JC Gore, SA Smith - Neuroimage, 2018 - Elsevier
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the human spinal cord at 7T has been demonstrated
by a handful of research sites worldwide, and the spinal cord remains one of the areas in …

SCT: Spinal Cord Toolbox, an open-source software for processing spinal cord MRI data

B De Leener, S Lévy, SM Dupont, VS Fonov, N Stikov… - Neuroimage, 2017 - Elsevier
For the past 25 years, the field of neuroimaging has witnessed the development of several
software packages for processing multi-parametric magnetic resonance imaging (mpMRI) to …

Automatic segmentation of the spinal cord and intramedullary multiple sclerosis lesions with convolutional neural networks

C Gros, B De Leener, A Badji, J Maranzano, D Eden… - Neuroimage, 2019 - Elsevier
The spinal cord is frequently affected by atrophy and/or lesions in multiple sclerosis (MS)
patients. Segmentation of the spinal cord and lesions from MRI data provides measures of …

PAM50: Unbiased multimodal template of the brainstem and spinal cord aligned with the ICBM152 space

B De Leener, VS Fonov, DL Collins, V Callot, N Stikov… - Neuroimage, 2018 - Elsevier
Template-based analysis of multi-parametric MRI data of the spinal cord sets the foundation
for standardization and reproducibility, thereby hel** the discovery of new biomarkers of …

Open-access quantitative MRI data of the spinal cord and reproducibility across participants, sites and manufacturers

J Cohen-Adad, E Alonso-Ortiz, M Abramovic, C Arneitz… - Scientific Data, 2021 - nature.com
In a companion paper by Cohen-Adad et al. we introduce the spine generic quantitative MRI
protocol that provides valuable metrics for assessing spinal cord macrostructural and …

Spinal cord gray matter segmentation using deep dilated convolutions

CS Perone, E Calabrese, J Cohen-Adad - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
Gray matter (GM) tissue changes have been associated with a wide range of neurological
disorders and were recently found relevant as a biomarker for disability in amyotrophic …

[HTML][HTML] Spinal cord grey matter segmentation challenge

F Prados, J Ashburner, C Blaiotta, T Brosch… - Neuroimage, 2017 - Elsevier
An important image processing step in spinal cord magnetic resonance imaging is the ability
to reliably and accurately segment grey and white matter for tissue specific analysis. There …

Brainstem and spinal cord MRI identifies altered sensorimotor pathways post-stroke

H Karbasforoushan, J Cohen-Adad… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Damage to the corticospinal tract is widely studied following unilateral subcortical stroke,
whereas less is known about changes to other sensorimotor pathways. This may be due to …

Spatial distribution of multiple sclerosis lesions in the cervical spinal cord

D Eden, C Gros, A Badji, SM Dupont, B De Leener… - Brain, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Spinal cord lesions detected on MRI hold important diagnostic and prognostic value for
multiple sclerosis. Previous attempts to correlate lesion burden with clinical status have had …