Measurement of Spinous Process Angles on Ultrasound Spine Images using HR-Net Method

The conventional method to evaluate spinous process angles (SPAs) is to obtain the spinous processes (SP) curve by manually locating spinous processes on radiographs. HR-Net is a deep neural network which uses a multi-feature fusion strategy for keypoints detection. The objectives of this study are to automatically locate the SP on the ultrasound (US) transverse images by applying the High-Resolut...