The lumbar spine includes the five vertebrae in your lower back numbered L1 to L5. These bones help provide mobility and stability to your back and spinal column and are an attachment point for many ...

First, our model only consists of pelvis, lumbar vertebrae, IVDs, ligaments, facet joints, and two muscle groups. Yet, geometries and muscle as well as ligament insertion points were extracted from ...

This repository provides an application for spine segmentation using the YOLOv8 model. The application predicts spine parts (L1, L2, L3, L4, L5, and S1) from uploaded images, drawing bounding boxes ...

Total psoas muscle area (tPMA) was calculated as bilateral psoas muscle areas drawn semi-automatically at the levels of L3–4 and L4–5. Graphs for weight and height were drawn and compared using data ...

There is a need to formulate a code of practice, based on shared expert's belief, to set measurement points in the lumbar spine to describe and quantify structural anomalies and in a further step ...

What is lumbar spinal stenosis? Lumbar spinal stenosis is a narrowing of the spinal canal in the lower back (lumbar spine). The spinal canal houses the spinal cord and nerves. The narrowing caused by ...

The following is a summary of “MRI-based vertebral bone quality score is a predictor of pedicle screw loosening following instrumented posterior lumbar fusion,” published in the January 2025 issue of ...

SCALA 3 is expected to start production by early 2025 and has been selected by Stellantis and three other global OEMs to support L3 and L4 autonomy features. The LiDAR order backlog is in the ...

It’s possible to have it without even experiencing any pain. The spinal column is divided into the cervical spine (the neck), the thoracic spine (the abdomen) and the lumbar spine (the lower back).

After reading the publications 7 papers fulfilled the inclusion criteria, and 60 papers were excluded because they did not report on any quantitative radiological sign of lumbar spinal stenosis.

Similar to adult degenerative scoliosis, all patients had a very low apex to their scoliotic curve (L3 or L4) with evidence of lumbar degenerative changes, but in contrast to typical adult deformity a ...