CAFR-Net: A transformer-contrastive framework for robust spinal MRI segmentation via global-local synergy

• Rui Ma ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Rui Ma, Xuegang Dai

  Roles Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Information Center, Gansu Provincial Maternity and Child care Hospital (GansuProvincial Central Hospital), Gansu, China

  https://orcid.org/0009-0000-4516-7638

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• Xuegang Dai ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Rui Ma, Xuegang Dai

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision

  Affiliation Information Center, Gansu Provincial Maternity and Child care Hospital (GansuProvincial Central Hospital), Gansu, China

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• Zuochao Yang,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

  Affiliation Information Center, Gansu Provincial Maternity and Child care Hospital (GansuProvincial Central Hospital), Gansu, China

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• Zhixiong Wei,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Visualization

  Affiliation Information Center, Gansu Provincial Maternity and Child care Hospital (GansuProvincial Central Hospital), Gansu, China

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• Bin Zhang

  Roles Project administration

  * E-mail: 1353660050@qq.com

  Affiliation Information Center, Gansu Provincial Maternity and Child care Hospital (GansuProvincial Central Hospital), Gansu, China

  https://orcid.org/0009-0000-1899-7564

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