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Four experimental sets were formulated to explore parameters such as background patch reduction, class-dependent augmentation and incorporation of a weight map on the loss function. <jats:italic>Main results.<\/jats:italic> Our best experimental scenario resulted in a mean Dice score of 0.93 \u00b1 0.06 for other bones (skull, mandible, scapulae, clavicles, humeri and hyoid), 0.93 \u00b1 0.02 for ribs and 0.88 \u00b1 0.03 for vertebrae on 7 test cases from the same cohorts as the training datasets. We compared our proposed solution approach to a retrained nnU-Net and obtained comparable results for vertebral bones while outperforming in the correct identification of the left and right instances of ribs, scapulae, humeri and clavicles. 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