Automated Thoracolumbar Stump Rib Detection and Analysis in a Large CT Cohort
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| author | Möller, Hendrik Schön, Hanna Dima, Alina Keinert-Weth, Benjamin Graf, Robert Atad, Matan Paetzold, Johannes Jungmann, Friederike Braren, Rickmer Kofler, Florian Menze, Bjoern Rueckert, Daniel Kirschke, Jan S. |
| author_facet | Möller, Hendrik Schön, Hanna Dima, Alina Keinert-Weth, Benjamin Graf, Robert Atad, Matan Paetzold, Johannes Jungmann, Friederike Braren, Rickmer Kofler, Florian Menze, Bjoern Rueckert, Daniel Kirschke, Jan S. |
| contents | Thoracolumbar stump ribs are one of the essential indicators of thoracolumbar transitional vertebrae or enumeration anomalies. While some studies manually assess these anomalies and describe the ribs qualitatively, this study aims to automate thoracolumbar stump rib detection and analyze their morphology quantitatively. To this end, we train a high-resolution deep-learning model for rib segmentation and show significant improvements compared to existing models (Dice score 0.997 vs. 0.779, p-value < 0.01). In addition, we use an iterative algorithm and piece-wise linear interpolation to assess the length of the ribs, showing a success rate of 98.2%. When analyzing morphological features, we show that stump ribs articulate more posteriorly at the vertebrae (-19.2 +- 3.8 vs -13.8 +- 2.5, p-value < 0.01), are thinner (260.6 +- 103.4 vs. 563.6 +- 127.1, p-value < 0.01), and are oriented more downwards and sideways within the first centimeters in contrast to full-length ribs. We show that with partially visible ribs, these features can achieve an F1-score of 0.84 in differentiating stump ribs from regular ones. We publish the model weights and masks for public use. |
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| spellingShingle | Automated Thoracolumbar Stump Rib Detection and Analysis in a Large CT Cohort Möller, Hendrik Schön, Hanna Dima, Alina Keinert-Weth, Benjamin Graf, Robert Atad, Matan Paetzold, Johannes Jungmann, Friederike Braren, Rickmer Kofler, Florian Menze, Bjoern Rueckert, Daniel Kirschke, Jan S. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Machine Learning Thoracolumbar stump ribs are one of the essential indicators of thoracolumbar transitional vertebrae or enumeration anomalies. While some studies manually assess these anomalies and describe the ribs qualitatively, this study aims to automate thoracolumbar stump rib detection and analyze their morphology quantitatively. To this end, we train a high-resolution deep-learning model for rib segmentation and show significant improvements compared to existing models (Dice score 0.997 vs. 0.779, p-value < 0.01). In addition, we use an iterative algorithm and piece-wise linear interpolation to assess the length of the ribs, showing a success rate of 98.2%. When analyzing morphological features, we show that stump ribs articulate more posteriorly at the vertebrae (-19.2 +- 3.8 vs -13.8 +- 2.5, p-value < 0.01), are thinner (260.6 +- 103.4 vs. 563.6 +- 127.1, p-value < 0.01), and are oriented more downwards and sideways within the first centimeters in contrast to full-length ribs. We show that with partially visible ribs, these features can achieve an F1-score of 0.84 in differentiating stump ribs from regular ones. We publish the model weights and masks for public use. |
| title | Automated Thoracolumbar Stump Rib Detection and Analysis in a Large CT Cohort |
| topic | Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Machine Learning |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.05004 |