A Primer on Radiomics Applications in Spinal Imaging

Radiomics extracts high-dimensional quantitative features from spinal CT and MRI, enabling early detection of osteoporosis, fragility fracture prediction, differentiation of benign vs malignant lesions, and assessment of intervertebral disc degeneration.

• Radiomics workflow includes feature selection, reproducibility analysis, and machine learning model building.
• In spinal imaging, radiomics can assess vertebral bone microarchitecture for osteoporosis and distinguish benign from malignant vertebral fractures.
• It also identifies imaging biomarkers of chronic low back pain and intervertebral disc degeneration risk.

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