Atlas-Free Cervical Spinal Cord Segmentation on Midsagittal T2-Weighted Magnetic Resonance Images

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The horizontal lines denote the superior and inferior edges of the spinal canal. The original MR image is shown in the left part of Figure <a href="../fig7/">7</a>.</div>

Journal of Healthcare Engineering

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Figure 5: Atlas-Free Cervical Spinal Cord Segmentation on Midsagittal T2-Weighted Magnetic Resonance Images 