Awesome list of vertebral labeling methods

[NathanMolinier]

Description

This issue will be used to regroup most/all the relevant methods used for vertebral labeling.

Awesome list

Method name	Link	Open source	Task	Region	Modality	Deep Learning based	Date	Comments
Template-based approach	paper	Yes	Discs detection	Disc C2-C3 must be visible	MRI (T1w/ T2w)	No	2014	Do not work when the FOV is thoracic or lumbar
Spine-GAN	paper	No	Discs, vertebrae and neural foramen segmentation	Lumbar	MRI (T1w/ T2w)	Yes	2018
Spine-explorer	paper	No	Vertebrae and discs segmentation	Lumbar	MRI (T2w)	Yes	2020
Stacked hourglass	paper	Yes	Discs detection	Cervical FOV	MRI (T1w/ T2w)	Yes (Hourglass)	2021	Restricted to a specific FOV
SpineNetV2	paper	Yes	Vertebral bodies detection/ radiological grading	Whole spine	MRI (T1w/ T2w/ STIR/ TIRM)	Yes	2022	Strange behaviour with T1w scans
Spine-transformers	paper	No	Vertebrae segmentation	Whole spine	CT	Yes	2022
Total segmentator	paper	Yes	Global segmentation	Whole body	CT	Yes (nnUNet)	2022
HCA-NET	paper	Yes	Discs detection	Cervical FOV	MRI (T1w/ T2w)	Yes	2023	Restricted to a specific FOV
MRI to CT registration then segmentation	paper	Yes	Vertebrae and discs segmentations	Whole spine	MRI (T1w/ T2w)	Yes (Pix2Pix)	2023	Relying on VerSe and SpineR
SPINEPS	paper	Yes	Vertebrae and discs segmentations	Whole spine	T2w	Yes (nnUNetV2)	2024

Other Benchmarks

VerSe: A vertebrae labelling and segmentation benchmark for multi-detector CT images.

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