Evan Brandstatter went from being paralyzed and hospital-bound for a time last August and September to shooting a 74 at Dykeman Park Golf Course Friday and placing tied for fourth among all ...

Abstract: There is very limited research published in the literature that applies content-based image retrieval (CBIR) techniques to retrieval of digitized spine X-ray images using a combination of ...

While the source of back pain – including pain radiating down from the back into the buttocks and lower extremities – can be difficult to diagnose, there are a number of signs and symptoms that may ...

While a degree of kyphosis curvature in the spine is normal, disproportionate kyphosis is pathologic ... Specifically, some of their thoracic vertebrae are trapezoidal in shape, a defining feature of ...

Results Twenty-nine patients had FRLs: 31% (20/64) of patients with spondyloarthropathy, 13% (6/45) with degenerative arthritis, 4% (2/45) with spinal malignancy, 5% (1/20) with ‘other’ diagnoses; ...

What is an acute spinal cord injury? Your spine is made of many bones called vertebrae. Your spinal cord runs downward through a canal in the center of these bones. The spinal cord is a bundle of ...

Spine shape analysis in particular, can assist neuroscientists to identify this relationship. A novel shape representation has been proposed recently, called Disjunctive Normal Shape Models (DNSM).