arxivcs.CV2026-07-06
Be Indiscrete: The Benefits of Learning Continuous Spine Degeneration Severity Scores
Maria Monzon, Andrew Zisserman, Robin Y. Park, Catherine R. Jutzeler, Amir Jamaludin
Lumbar spine degeneration is a major contributor to chronic low back pain and is routinely assessed on MRI using ordinal grading systems, e.g. normal, mild, moderate, severe. Consequently, most approaches to train models to grade these MRIs formulate grading as a multi-class clas…