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Autori principali: Zeng, Zixue, Perti, Anthony M., Yu, Tong, Kokenberger, Grant, Lu, Hao-En, Wang, Jing, Meng, Xin, Sheng, Zhiyu, Satarpour, Maryam, Cormack, John M., Bean, Allison C., Nussbaum, Ryan P., Landis-Walkenhorst, Emily, Kim, Kang, Wasan, Ajay D., Pu, Jiantao
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Pubblicazione: 2025
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Accesso online:https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.21767
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author Zeng, Zixue
Perti, Anthony M.
Yu, Tong
Kokenberger, Grant
Lu, Hao-En
Wang, Jing
Meng, Xin
Sheng, Zhiyu
Satarpour, Maryam
Cormack, John M.
Bean, Allison C.
Nussbaum, Ryan P.
Landis-Walkenhorst, Emily
Kim, Kang
Wasan, Ajay D.
Pu, Jiantao
author_facet Zeng, Zixue
Perti, Anthony M.
Yu, Tong
Kokenberger, Grant
Lu, Hao-En
Wang, Jing
Meng, Xin
Sheng, Zhiyu
Satarpour, Maryam
Cormack, John M.
Bean, Allison C.
Nussbaum, Ryan P.
Landis-Walkenhorst, Emily
Kim, Kang
Wasan, Ajay D.
Pu, Jiantao
contents Myofascial pain (MP) is a leading cause of chronic low back pain, yet its tissue-level drivers remain poorly defined and lack reliable image biomarkers. Existing studies focus predominantly on muscle while neglecting fascia, fat, and other soft tissues that play integral biomechanical roles. We developed an anatomically grounded explainable artificial intelligence (AI) framework, LAYER (Layer-wise Analysis for Yielding Explainable Relevance Tissue), that analyses six tissue layers in three-dimensional (3D) ultrasound and quantifies their contribution to MP prediction. By utilizing the largest multi-model 3D ultrasound cohort consisting of over 4,000 scans, LAYER reveals that non-muscle tissues contribute substantially to pain prediction. In B-mode imaging, the deep fascial membrane (DFM) showed the highest saliency (0.420), while in combined B-mode and shear-wave images, the collective saliency of non-muscle layers (0.316) nearly matches that of muscle (0.317), challenging the conventional muscle-centric paradigm in MP research and potentially affecting the therapy methods. LAYER establishes a quantitative, interpretable framework for linking layer-specific anatomy to pain physiology, uncovering new tissue targets and providing a generalizable approach for explainable analysis of soft-tissue imaging.
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spellingShingle LAYER: A Quantitative Explainable AI Framework for Decoding Tissue-Layer Drivers of Myofascial Low Back Pain
Zeng, Zixue
Perti, Anthony M.
Yu, Tong
Kokenberger, Grant
Lu, Hao-En
Wang, Jing
Meng, Xin
Sheng, Zhiyu
Satarpour, Maryam
Cormack, John M.
Bean, Allison C.
Nussbaum, Ryan P.
Landis-Walkenhorst, Emily
Kim, Kang
Wasan, Ajay D.
Pu, Jiantao
Image and Video Processing
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Tissues and Organs
Myofascial pain (MP) is a leading cause of chronic low back pain, yet its tissue-level drivers remain poorly defined and lack reliable image biomarkers. Existing studies focus predominantly on muscle while neglecting fascia, fat, and other soft tissues that play integral biomechanical roles. We developed an anatomically grounded explainable artificial intelligence (AI) framework, LAYER (Layer-wise Analysis for Yielding Explainable Relevance Tissue), that analyses six tissue layers in three-dimensional (3D) ultrasound and quantifies their contribution to MP prediction. By utilizing the largest multi-model 3D ultrasound cohort consisting of over 4,000 scans, LAYER reveals that non-muscle tissues contribute substantially to pain prediction. In B-mode imaging, the deep fascial membrane (DFM) showed the highest saliency (0.420), while in combined B-mode and shear-wave images, the collective saliency of non-muscle layers (0.316) nearly matches that of muscle (0.317), challenging the conventional muscle-centric paradigm in MP research and potentially affecting the therapy methods. LAYER establishes a quantitative, interpretable framework for linking layer-specific anatomy to pain physiology, uncovering new tissue targets and providing a generalizable approach for explainable analysis of soft-tissue imaging.
title LAYER: A Quantitative Explainable AI Framework for Decoding Tissue-Layer Drivers of Myofascial Low Back Pain
topic Image and Video Processing
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Tissues and Organs
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.21767