# Truncation to Vertebral Bodies

To exclude the vertebral arch and spinous processes from the vertebrae's segmentation, we performed these steps:
- **Spinal Cord Label:** Combined labels originating from or generated by [TotalSegmentator](https://github.com/wasserth/TotalSegmentator/) and generated by [Body-and-Organ-Analysis](https://github.com/UMEssen/Body-and-Organ-Analysis) to create a single label for the spinal cord.
- **Label Reduction:** Limited vertebral labels to the voxels located anterior to the spinal cord label.
- **3D Area Isolation:** Retained only the largest 3D-connected area for each label, removing extraneous voxels.
- **Hole Filling:** Filled any holes (unassigned voxels completely surrounded by voxels of a single label).
- **Smoothing:** Applied a smoothing algorithm to refine the edges of the labels.
  
**The script used for this process can be found in [4_MaskEdits.py](4_MaskEdits.py).**
The resulting labels were then manually reviewed and corrected as needed.