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<p>Spinal image analysis plays a critical role in the diagnosis and treatment of musculoskeletal and neurological disorders. However, existing vertebrae segmentation methods suffer from limited generalizability across clinical domains and rarely address downstream tasks such as vertebrae identification and lesion localization. In this work, we introduce VertebraFormer, a unified multi-task framework designed for robust and generalizable spinal CT analysis. To support this framework, we curate MultiSpine, a heterogeneous benchmark comprising CT volumes from four public and private datasets, annotated with vertebra segmentation masks, anatomical labels, and pathology regions. Our method integrates a Transformer encoder with task-specific decoders and a dynamic modulation unit that adapts feature representations to different imaging domains. We evaluate VertebraFormer across three key tasks-vertebra segmentation, vertebra numbering, and lesion localization, under both in-domain and cross-domain settings. Extensive experiments demonstrate that VertebraFormer outperforms competitive baselines in both accuracy and robustness. We further conduct ablation, perturbation, and efficiency analyses to validate the framework.</p>

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Structure-aware multi-task learning with domain generalization for robust vertebrae analysis in spinal CT

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    2026年1月10日

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  • Jianyang Du,
  • Heng’an Ge,
  • Rui Zhang,
  • Zhenghan Chen,
  • Yuxin Zhang,
  • Yuqi Bai,
  • Honghao Xu,
  • Feng Ding,
  • Yongchao Zhang,
  • Juan Ye,
  • Yihang Yang,
  • Shaoshan Hu,
  • Jingbiao Huang

摘要

Spinal image analysis plays a critical role in the diagnosis and treatment of musculoskeletal and neurological disorders. However, existing vertebrae segmentation methods suffer from limited generalizability across clinical domains and rarely address downstream tasks such as vertebrae identification and lesion localization. In this work, we introduce VertebraFormer, a unified multi-task framework designed for robust and generalizable spinal CT analysis. To support this framework, we curate MultiSpine, a heterogeneous benchmark comprising CT volumes from four public and private datasets, annotated with vertebra segmentation masks, anatomical labels, and pathology regions. Our method integrates a Transformer encoder with task-specific decoders and a dynamic modulation unit that adapts feature representations to different imaging domains. We evaluate VertebraFormer across three key tasks-vertebra segmentation, vertebra numbering, and lesion localization, under both in-domain and cross-domain settings. Extensive experiments demonstrate that VertebraFormer outperforms competitive baselines in both accuracy and robustness. We further conduct ablation, perturbation, and efficiency analyses to validate the framework.