Tracing 3D Anatomy in 2D Strokes: A Multi-Stage Projection Driven Approach to Cervical Spine Fracture Identification
This paper presents an automated, multi-stage pipeline that identifies cervical spine fractures by fusing orthogonal 2D segmentations to estimate 3D volumes of interest, which are then analyzed using a 2.5D CNN-Transformer ensemble to achieve diagnostic performance comparable to expert radiologists while reducing computational dimensionality.