Establish a standard framework with 25 manually annotated 3D T2 MRI data for an objective comparison of intervertebral disc (IVD) localization and segmentation methods.
Investigate strengths and limitations of a representative selection of the state-of-the-art IVD localization and segmentation methods with a challenge setup.
Results achieved by the best algorithms in this study set new frontiers for IVD localization and segmentation from MR data.