@inproceedings{c017a55367a94ab8965def0cb2166b14,
title = "MRI-based surgical planning for lumbar spinal stenosis",
abstract = "The most common reason for spinal surgery in elderly patients is lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS). For LSS, treatment decisions based on clinical and radiological information as well as personal experience of the surgeon show large variance. Thus a standardized support system is of high value for a more objective and reproducible decision. In this work, we develop an automated algorithm to localize the stenosis causing the symptoms of the patient in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). With 22 MRI features of each of five spinal levels of 321 patients, we show it is possible to predict the location of lesion triggering the symptoms. To support this hypothesis, we conduct an automated analysis of labeled and unlabeled MRI scans extracted from 788 patients. We confirm quantitatively the importance of radiological information and provide an algorithmic pipeline for working with raw MRI scans. Both code and data are provided for further research at www.spinalstenosis.ethz.ch.",
keywords = "Deep learning, Lumbar spinal stenosis, Machine learning",
author = "Gabriele Abbati and Stefan Bauer and Sebastian Winklhofer and Sch{\"u}ffler, {Peter J.} and Ulrike Held and Burgstaller, {Jakob M.} and Johann Steurer and Buhmann, {Joachim M.}",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} Springer International Publishing AG 2017.; 20th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2017 ; Conference date: 11-09-2017 Through 13-09-2017",
year = "2017",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-319-66179-7_14",
language = "English",
isbn = "9783319661780",
series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)",
publisher = "Springer Verlag",
pages = "116--124",
editor = "Lena Maier-Hein and Alfred Franz and Pierre Jannin and Simon Duchesne and Maxime Descoteaux and Collins, {D. Louis}",
booktitle = "Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention − MICCAI 2017 - 20th International Conference, Proceedings",
}