Automatic Spinal Segmentation for MAR Analysis

In spine research, a great effort is made to understand the various spinal conditions. Optima Health Solutions, a
leading organization in spinal care and research, has been performing MAR Analysis to measure the Mean Axis
of Rotation of joints in the cervical spine, to help better understand, treat, and prevent chronic neck pain in
patients. Until now, performing the MAR Analysis required extensive effort by trained doctors in manually
tracing and performing subsequent geometric analysis on spinal x-rays. The goal of this project is to use
computer vision techniques to automatically “trace” the spine joints directly from the x-ray, allowing the entire
procedure to be automated. Successful completion of this project will remove the bottleneck in this analysis

Faculty Supervisor:

Frank Ferrie

Student:

Partner:

Optima Health Solutions International Corp

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

University:

McGill University

Program:

Accelerate