MRI

It’s the endurance, not the anatomy: DL, paraspinal degeneration, and chronic low back pain

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A deep learning tool matches Dixon imaging for paraspinal fat fraction quantification from standard MRI. The more clinically important finding: most of the relationship between muscle degeneration and disability operates through muscle endurance, not structural change directly.

Better than the middle grade: AI detection of cervical cord compression on MRI

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Evidence-reviewed. Citations throughout. Degenerative cervical myelopathy is the most common cause of non-traumatic spinal cord injury in adults and one of the most consequential diagnoses to miss. The pathology is progressive, the window for intervention matters, and the early signs on MRI — subtle cord signal change, mild compression at a single level — are … Read more