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  "id": 519657,
  "title": "Strange images for the diagnosis of canal stenosis",
  "url": "/competitions/rsna-2024-lumbar-spine-degenerative-classification/discussion/519657",
  "author_name": "JasperGemini",
  "post_date": "2024-07-12T08:33:04.211000",
  "votes": 1,
  "comment_count": 0,
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  "content": "<p>I'm approaching this problem without any prior knowledge of the field, so this might just be an issue with my understanding. As far as I know, spinal stenosis is nothing more than a compression of the spinal cord due to a narrowing of the spinal canal. This leads me to believe that the best way to determine if it's occurring from the images is to find a CT image where the spinal cord is visible and check if there's any narrowing.<br>\nThe problem arises when, while exploring the data, I've seen a couple of images (I haven't looked for more) where the image doesn't seem to be visible, but they're labeled as if they were images where the condition can be diagnosed. The images are \"rsna_data\\train_images\\3294654272\\4147986695\\1.dcm\" and \"\\train_images\\2937953357\\2433869833\\20.dcm\", and they even have the coordinates filled in.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/kaggle-forum-message-attachments/o/inbox%2F4273729%2Fd290509a406b2ee284ab9271bcbb6356%2F1%20-%20copia.png?generation=1720773056095000&amp;alt=media\"></p>\n<p><img src=\"https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/kaggle-forum-message-attachments/o/inbox%2F4273729%2Fc21ab4cf59bc4ab6a0efb09a01c6a7d2%2F20%20-%20copia.png?generation=1720773082715330&amp;alt=media\"><br>\nIf someone with domain knowledge could resolve this, I would greatly appreciate it.</p>",
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      "postDate": "2024-07-12T08:33:04.213Z",
      "content": "<p>I'm approaching this problem without any prior knowledge of the field, so this might just be an issue with my understanding. As far as I know, spinal stenosis is nothing more than a compression of the spinal cord due to a narrowing of the spinal canal. This leads me to believe that the best way to determine if it's occurring from the images is to find a CT image where the spinal cord is visible and check if there's any narrowing.<br>\nThe problem arises when, while exploring the data, I've seen a couple of images (I haven't looked for more) where the image doesn't seem to be visible, but they're labeled as if they were images where the condition can be diagnosed. The images are \"rsna_data\\train_images\\3294654272\\4147986695\\1.dcm\" and \"\\train_images\\2937953357\\2433869833\\20.dcm\", and they even have the coordinates filled in.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/kaggle-forum-message-attachments/o/inbox%2F4273729%2Fd290509a406b2ee284ab9271bcbb6356%2F1%20-%20copia.png?generation=1720773056095000&amp;alt=media\"></p>\n<p><img src=\"https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/kaggle-forum-message-attachments/o/inbox%2F4273729%2Fc21ab4cf59bc4ab6a0efb09a01c6a7d2%2F20%20-%20copia.png?generation=1720773082715330&amp;alt=media\"><br>\nIf someone with domain knowledge could resolve this, I would greatly appreciate it.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "I'm approaching this problem without any prior knowledge of the field, so this might just be an issue with my understanding. As far as I know, spinal stenosis is nothing more than a compression of the spinal cord due to a narrowing of the spinal canal. This leads me to believe that the best way to determine if it's occurring from the images is to find a CT image where the spinal cord is visible and check if there's any narrowing.\nThe problem arises when, while exploring the data, I've seen a couple of images (I haven't looked for more) where the image doesn't seem to be visible, but they're labeled as if they were images where the condition can be diagnosed. The images are \"rsna_data\\train_images\\3294654272\\4147986695\\1.dcm\" and \"\\train_images\\2937953357\\2433869833\\20.dcm\", and they even have the coordinates filled in.\n\n![](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/kaggle-forum-message-attachments/o/inbox%2F4273729%2Fd290509a406b2ee284ab9271bcbb6356%2F1%20-%20copia.png?generation=1720773056095000&alt=media)\n\n![](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/kaggle-forum-message-attachments/o/inbox%2F4273729%2Fc21ab4cf59bc4ab6a0efb09a01c6a7d2%2F20%20-%20copia.png?generation=1720773082715330&alt=media)\nIf someone with domain knowledge could resolve this, I would greatly appreciate it.",
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    "2918416": "I'm approaching this problem without any prior knowledge of the field, so this might just be an issue with my understanding. As far as I know, spinal stenosis is nothing more than a compression of the spinal cord due to a narrowing of the spinal canal. This leads me to believe that the best way to determine if it's occurring from the images is to find a CT image where the spinal cord is visible and check if there's any narrowing.\nThe problem arises when, while exploring the data, I've seen a couple of images (I haven't looked for more) where the image doesn't seem to be visible, but they're labeled as if they were images where the condition can be diagnosed. The images are \"rsna_data\\train_images\\3294654272\\4147986695\\1.dcm\" and \"\\train_images\\2937953357\\2433869833\\20.dcm\", and they even have the coordinates filled in.\n\n![](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/kaggle-forum-message-attachments/o/inbox%2F4273729%2Fd290509a406b2ee284ab9271bcbb6356%2F1%20-%20copia.png?generation=1720773056095000&alt=media)\n\n![](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/kaggle-forum-message-attachments/o/inbox%2F4273729%2Fc21ab4cf59bc4ab6a0efb09a01c6a7d2%2F20%20-%20copia.png?generation=1720773082715330&alt=media)\nIf someone with domain knowledge could resolve this, I would greatly appreciate it."
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