SPA-RESUNET: Strip Pooling Attention Resunet for Multi-Class Segmentation of Vertebrae and Intervertebral Discs

Automated multi-class segmentation of vertebrae and intervertebral discs for volumetric magnetic resonance image(MRI) can help the diagnosis and the treatment of many spinal diseases. However, existing methods based on fully convolutional network mostly stacked local convolution and pooling operations, and thus failed to capture the long-range dependencies for spine segmentation. In this paper, we...