Enhanced Quantitative Assessment of Lumbar Facet Joint Degeneration: Refining the Joint Degeneration Grading System With Grayscale Curve Fitting and Imaging Parameter
Xiaowen Liu, Mingjian Sun, Shouyu He, Hao Zhang, Runze Li, Jiangang Shi, Xuexiao Ma · 2025
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Xiaowen Liu and six co-authors sharpen a grading system for worn lower back joints, in a 2025 imaging study. The small facet joints at the back of the spine wear with age and feed chronic back pain. The standard grade rests on a doctor's eye, which is coarse for early wear. The team studied forty-eight patients and one hundred sixty-one joints, pulling many measures from their scans.
Wear tracked with disc wear, joint size, and fat layer depth, and ran against disc height and back motion range. Two traits, motion range and joint size, stood out as firm drivers in the final model. A smoothed curve fit of the joints' gray values gave a finer grade than the eye-based scale. The authors offer the refined grade for earlier, more exact calls in back care.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Xiaowen Liu, Mingjian Sun, Shouyu He, Hao Zhang, Runze Li, Jiangang Shi, Xuexiao Ma |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 42 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |