| # Truncation to Vertebral Bodies | |
| To exclude the vertebral arch and spinous processes from the vertebrae's segmentation, we performed these steps: | |
| - **Spinal Cord Label:** Combined labels originating from or generated by [TotalSegmentator](https://github.com/wasserth/TotalSegmentator/) and generated by [Body-and-Organ-Analysis](https://github.com/UMEssen/Body-and-Organ-Analysis) to create a single label for the spinal cord. | |
| - **Label Reduction:** Limited vertebral labels to the voxels located anterior to the spinal cord label. | |
| - **3D Area Isolation:** Retained only the largest 3D-connected area for each label, removing extraneous voxels. | |
| - **Hole Filling:** Filled any holes (unassigned voxels completely surrounded by voxels of a single label). | |
| - **Smoothing:** Applied a smoothing algorithm to refine the edges of the labels. | |
| **The script used for this process can be found in [4_MaskEdits.py](4_MaskEdits.py).** | |
| The resulting labels were then manually reviewed and corrected as needed. |