Cape Town - 2026 ISMRM-ISMRT Annual Meeting and Exhibition
9 May 2026 – 14 May 2026 · Cape Town, South Africa
604-01-008 ISMRM Abstract

Automatic Spinal Cord Gray Matter Segmentation Across Multiple Contrasts, Magnetic Fields, Regions and Pathologies

Primary: Neuro - Spinal Cord
Secondary: Analysis Methods - Segmentation and Detection
604-01-008 · Advanced MRI Techniques for Spinal Cord Structure, Function, and Physiology · Thursday, 14 May, 8:30 AM–10:20 AM · Ballroom East
Keywords: Gray Matter Multiple Sclerosis Spinal Cord Toolbox Deep Learning Segmentation Contrast agnostic
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Nilser Laines-Medina 1,2,3,4, Jan Valosek1,2,5, Samira Mchinda3,4, Katerina Krejci6, Josef Bednarik7,8, Tomas Horak7,8, Petr Kudlicka8, Nico Papinutto9, Roland G Henry9, Deborah Pareto10, Jaume Sastre-Garriga11, Alex Rovira10, Mindy Levin12,13, Feroze Mohamed14,15, Seth A Smith16,17,18, Tobias Granberg19,20, Christopher Hemond21, Charidimos Tsagkas22,23,24, Cristina Granziera23,24, Regina Schlaeger24,25,26,27, Claudia A Gandini Wheeler-Kingshott, Kristin P O'Grady16,17,18, Gergely David28,29, Virginie Callot3,4, Julien Cohen-Adad1,2,30,31
1NeuroPoly Lab, Montreal, Canada
2Mila - Quebec AI Institute, Montreal, Canada
3Aix Marseille Univ, Marseille, France
4APHM, Marseille, France
5Department of Neurosurgery, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, Palacký University Olomouc, Olomouc, Czechia, Czech Republic
6Department of Biomedical Engineering, Brno University of Technology, Brno, Czechia, Czech Republic
7Department of Neurology, University Hospital Brno, Brno, Czechia, Czech Republic
8Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, Brno, Czechia, Czech Republic
9Department of Neurology, Weill Institute for Neurosciences, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
10Section of Neuroradiology and Magnetic Resonance Unit, Barcelona, Spain
11Department of Neurology / Neuroimmunology, Multiple Sclerosis Centre of Catalonia (Cemcat), Barcelona, Spain
12School of Physical and Occupational Therapy, Montreal, Canada
13Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Rehabilitation, Montreal, Qc. Canada, Montreal, Canada
14Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, United States of America
15Radiology, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, United States of America
16Vanderbilt University Institute of Imaging Science, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, United States of America
17Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, United States of America
18Department of Biomedical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, United States of America
19Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden., Sweden
20Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, United States of America
21Department of Neurology, University of Massachusetts Memorial Medical Center and University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, Worcester, United States of America
22Translational Neuroradiology Section, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, United States of America
23Neurologic Clinic and Policlinic, Departments of Medicine, Clinical Research and Biomedical Engineering, University Hospital Basel and University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland., Switzerland
24Translational Imaging in Neurology (ThINk) Basel, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University Hospital Basel and University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland., Switzerland
25Research Center for Clinical Neuroimmunology and Neuroscience Basel (RC2NB), University Hospital Basel and University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland, Switzerland
26Department of Neurology, University Hospital Basel and University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland., Switzerland
27Department of Clinical Research, University Hospital Basel, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland., Switzerland
28Spinal Cord Injury Center, Balgrist University Hospital, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Switzerland
29Department of Neuro-Urology, Balgrist University Hospital, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Switzerland
30Functional Neuroimaging Unit, Montreal, Canada
31Centre de Recherche du CHU Sainte-Justine, Montreal, Canada
Presenting Author: Nilser Laines-Medina

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