Patients undergoing surgery for DCM as a part of the AO Spine CSM-NA or CSM-I prospective cohort studies were included in our study. Patients were divided into a training/validation or holdout dataset. Images were labelled by two specialist physicians. We trained a deep convolutional neural ...
Functional Anatomy of the Cervical Spine Meridel I. Gatterman, in Whiplash, 2012 Components of the Lower Spinal Motion Segments Vertebrae The lower cervical vertebrae have three parts that are associated with movement: the anterior (ventral) body, the medial (neural) arch, and the lateral transver...
The reliability of this method of assessing the presence of DJD in the cervical spine has been shown to be substantial [46]. These data were categorical (binary), because each articulation was labelled as either 'normal' or 'showing signs of DJD'. Data Analysis First, we determined whether ...
2. Such specialized anatomy hinders twisting or turning of the cervical spine below C2, which in turn increases rigidity and stability of the large cranium and mandible3. The neck muscles and ventral thorax contribute to flexion and rotation of the head, while extension of the neck is limited...
View further author informationhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-7146-4537Brian T. SwansonView further author informationhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-6766-8572Margaret A. HofbauerView further author informationhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-0217-9572