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The aim of this study was to investigate the feasibility of a deep learning\u2013based segmentation model for measuring ISM in patients who underwent ACDF surgery.<\/jats:p>\n<\/jats:sec>\n<jats:sec>\n<jats:title>METHODS<\/jats:title>\n<jats:p>This study is a retrospective analysis of flexion-extension dynamic cervical radiographs from a single institution and a validation of a convolutional neural network (CNN)\u2013based artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm for measuring ISM. Data from 150 lateral cervical radiographs from the normal adult population were used to train the AI algorithm. A total of 106 pairs of dynamic flexion-extension radiographs from patients who underwent ACDF at a single institution were analyzed and validated for measuring ISM. To evaluate the agreement power between human experts and the AI algorithm, the authors assessed the interrater reliability using the intraclass correlation coefficient and root mean square error (RMSE) and performed a Bland-Altman plot analysis. They processed 106 pairs of radiographs from ACDF patients into the AI algorithm for autosegmenting the spinous process created using 150 normal population radiographs. The algorithm automatically segmented the spinous process and converted it to a binary large object (BLOB) image. The rightmost coordinate value of each spinous process from the BLOB image was extracted, and the pixel distance between the upper and lower spinous process coordinate value was calculated. The AI-measured ISM was calculated by multiplying the pixel distance by the pixel spacing value included in the DICOM tag of each radiograph.<\/jats:p>\n<\/jats:sec>\n<jats:sec>\n<jats:title>RESULTS<\/jats:title>\n<jats:p>The AI algorithm showed a favorable prediction power for detecting spinous processes with an accuracy of 99.2% in the test set radiographs. The interrater reliability between the human and AI algorithm of ISM was 0.88 (95% CI 0.83\u20130.91), and its RMSE was 0.68. In the Bland-Altman plot analysis, the 95% limit of interrater differences ranged from 0.11 to 1.36 mm, and a few observations were outside the 95% limit. The mean difference between observers was 0.02 \u00b1 0.68 mm.<\/jats:p>\n<\/jats:sec>\n<jats:sec>\n<jats:title>CONCLUSIONS<\/jats:title>\n<jats:p>This novel CNN-based autosegmentation algorithm for measuring ISM in dynamic cervical radiographs showed strong agreement power to expert human raters and could help clinicians to evaluate segmental motion following ACDF surgery in clinical settings.<\/jats:p>\n<\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.3171\/2023.5.spine23293","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,6,10]],"date-time":"2023-06-10T17:35:31Z","timestamp":1686418531000},"page":"329-334","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":5,"title":["Measurement of interspinous motion in dynamic cervical radiographs using a deep learning\u2013based segmentation model"],"prefix":"10.3171","volume":"39","author":[{"given":"Dae-Woong","family":"Ham","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Chung-Ang University Hospital, College of Medicine, Chung-Ang University, Dongjak-gu, Seoul;"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Yang-seon","family":"Choi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Chung-Ang University Hospital, College of Medicine, Chung-Ang University, Dongjak-gu, Seoul;"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Yisack","family":"Yoo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Chung-Ang University Hospital, College of Medicine, Chung-Ang University, Dongjak-gu, Seoul;"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Sang-Min","family":"Park","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Seoul National University College of Medicine and Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Gyeonggi-do, Seoul, South Korea"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Kwang-Sup","family":"Song","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Chung-Ang University Hospital, College of Medicine, Chung-Ang University, Dongjak-gu, Seoul;"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1754","reference":[{"issue":"9","key":"b1","series-title":"J Bone Joint Surg Am","first-page":"1298","article-title":"Robinson anterior cervical discectomy and arthrodesis for cervical radiculopathy. 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