Publications

2025

Rowland B, Barth KS, Bell KM, … Weber II KA, … Anstrom KJ, Clauw DJ, Sowa GA, Mauck MC. Baseline characteristics of participants in the Biomarkers for Evaluating Spine Treatments clinical trial: a sequential multiple assignment randomized trial for chronic low back pain, Pain Medicine, In Press. DOI
Wesselink EO A, Coppieters MW, Elliott JM, Weber II KA, Verheijen EJA, Djuric N, Moojen W, Vleggeert-Lankamp C, Pool-Goudzwaard A. Lumbar multifidus intramuscular fat concentrations are associated with recovery following decompressive surgery for lumbar spinal stenosis: A longitudinal cohort study with 5-year follow-up, Spine, In Press. DOI
Mauck MC, Barth KS, Bell KM, … Weber II KA, … Anstrom KJ, Clauw DJ, Sowa GA. The Design and Rationale of the Biomarkers for Evaluating Spine Treatments (BEST) Trial, Pain Medicine, 2025;26(9):538-553. DOI
Bédard S, Valošek J, Oliva V, Weber KA, and Cohen-Adad J. Rootlets-based registration to the spinal cord PAM50 template, Imaging Neuroscience, 2025;3:IMAG.a.123. DOI
Kim B, Gandomkar Z, Wesselink EO, Seitz AL, McKay MJ, Cass B, Young AA, Linklater JM, Szajer J, Subbiah K, Elliott JM, Weber II KA. Developing a three-dimensional convolutional neural network for automated full-volume multi-tissue segmentation of the shoulder with comparisons to Goutallier classification and partial volume muscle quality analysis, Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery, 2025;34(9):2224-2238. DOI
Smith AC, Morey C, Thornton WA, Connor JR, Pfyffer D, Weber II KA, Will K, Tefertiller C. Responsiveness to Transcutaneous Spinal Stimulation for Upper Extremity Recovery following Spinal Cord Injury: A Case Series Exploration of Midsagittal Tissue Bridges, The Journal of Spinal Cord Medicine, 2025;48(5):920-926. DOI
Thornton WA, Smulligan K, Weber II KA, Tefertiller C, Mañago M, Sevigny M, Wiley L, Stevens-Lapsley J, Smith AC. Lesion characteristics are associated with bowel, bladder, and overall independence following cervical spinal cord injury, The Journal of Spinal Cord Medicine, 2025;48(5):858-866. DOI
You DS, Lannon E, Kim S, Dildine TC, Weber II KA, Raney E, Mackey S. Impact of Pain Self-Efficacy on Health Outcomes in High-Impact Chronic Pain: A Longitudinal Study, Clinical Journal of Pain, 2025;41(8):e1295. DOI
Baker AK, Rosser MA, Park SH, Weber II KA, Martucci KT. Cross-Sectional Relationships Between Spinal Cord Gray Matter Volume and Pain in Individuals with Fibromyalgia and Opioid Use, Scientific Reports, Scientific Reports, 2025;15(1):27810. DOI
Connor JR, Thornton WA, Weber KA, Pfyffer D, Tefertiller C, Smith AC. Reliability of SCIseg automated measurement of midsagittal tissue bridges in spinal cord injuries using an external dataset, Topics in Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation, 2025;31(2):39-49. DOI
Carmichael J, Weber II KA, Rubinstein S, Svoboda E, Bade M. Scapular Pain in Cervical Radiculopathy: A Scoping Review, North American Spine Society Journal, 2025;23:100619. DOI
Enamundram NK, Valošek J, Farner L, Pfyffer D, Schading-Sassenhausen S, Lebret A, David D, Smith AC, Weber II KA, Seif M, RHSCIR Network Imaging Group, Freund P, Cohen-Adad J. SCIsegV2: A Universal Tool for Segmentation of Intramedullary Lesions in Spinal Cord Injury, International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention. In: Wu S, Shabestari B, Xing L, editors. Appl Med Artif Intell. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland; 2025. p. 198–209. DOI
Labounek R, Bondy M, Amy Paulson A, Bédard S, …, Weber II KA, …, Xu J, Cohen-Adad J, Lenglet C, Nestrašil I. Body size interacts with the structure of the central nervous system: A multi-center in vivo human neuroimaging study, Imaging Neuroscience, 2025;3:imag_a_00559. DOI
Muhammad F, Weber II KA, Bédard S, Haynes G, Smith ZA. Semiautomated Pipeline Effectively Assesses Severity and Monitor Disease Progression in Compressed Spinal Cord of Degenerative Cervical Myelopathy Patients, Neurosurgery Practice, 2025;6(2):e00138. DOI
Anderson DB, Beach AJ, Chen L, Feng HJ, McKay MJ, Smith ZA, Weber II KA, Wesselink EEO, Elliott JM. What is Normal Age-Related Thigh Muscle Composition Among 45- to 84-year-Old Adults from the UK Biobank Study, GeroScience, 2025;47(1):1175-1185. DOI
Bédard S, Enamundram NK, Tsagkas C, Pravatà E, Granziera C, Smith A, Weber II KA, Cohen-Adad J. Towards Contrast-Agnostic Segmentation of the Spinal Cord, Medical Image Analysis, 2025;101:103473. DOI
Smith AC, Muñoz-Laguna J, Wesselink EO, Scott ZE, Jenkins H, Thornton W, Connor J, Delp S, Chaudhari A, Parrish TB, Mackey S, Elliott JM, Weber II KA. Leg Muscle Health and Force Generation: Insights from a Computer-Vision Model and Fat-Water MRI, Journal of Cachexia, Sarcopenia and Muscle, 2025;16(1):e13735. DOI
Falasinnu T, Hossain B, Weber K, Ehsan K, Mackey S. The Problem of Pain in the United States: Evaluating the Generalizability of High-Impact Chronic Pain Models Over Time Using NHIS Data, BMJ Public Health, 2025;3(1):e001628. DOI
Mackey S, Aghaeepour N, Gaudilliere B, Merve K, Lannon E, Pfyffer D, Weber K. Innovations in Acute and Chronic Pain Biomarkers: Enhancing Diagnosis and Personalized Therapy, Regional Anesthesia & Pain Medicine, 2025;50(2):110-120. DOI
Weber II KA, Wesselink EO, Gutierrez J, Law CSW, Mackey S, Ratliff J, Hu S, Chaudhari AS, Pool-Goudzwaard A, Coppieters MW, Elliott JM, Hancock M, De Leener B. Three-Dimensional Spatial Distribution of Lumbar Paraspinal Intramuscular Fat Revealed by Spatial Parametric Mapping, European Spine Journal, 2025;34(1):27-35. DOI
Wesselink EO, Hides J, Elliott JM, Hoggarth M, Weber II KA, Salomoni SE, Tran V, Lindsay K, Hughes L, Weber T, Scott J, Caplan N, De Martino E. New insights into the impact of bed rest on lumbopelvic muscles: A computer-vision model approach to intramuscular lipid concentration changes, Journal of Applied Physiology, 2025;138(1):157-68. DOI
Enamundram NK, Valosek J, Smith AC, Pfyffer D, Schading-Sassenhausen S, Farner L, Weber II KA, Freund P, Cohen-Adad J. SCIseg: Automatic Segmentation of Intramedullary Lesions in Spinal Cord Injury on T2-weighted MRI Scans, Radiology AI, 2025;7(1):e240005. DOI

2024

Stewart C, Wesselink EO, Perraton Z, Weber II KA, King MG, Kemp JL, Mentiplay BF, Crossley KM, Elliott JM, Heerey JJ, Scholes MJ, Lawrenson PR, Calabrese C, Semciw AI. Muscle fat and volume differences in people with hip-related pain compared to controls: A machine learning approach, Journal of Cachexia, Sarcopenia and Muscle, 2024;15(6):2642-2650. DOI
Haynes G, Muhammad F, Weber 2nd KA, Khan AF, Hameed S, Shakir H, Rohan M, Dhaher Y, Ding L, Smith ZA. Tract-Specific Magnetization Transfer Ratio Provides Insights into the Severity of Degenerative Cervical Myelopathy, Spinal Cord, 2024;62(12):700-707. DOI
McKay MJ, Weber II KA, Wesselink E, Smith ZA, Abbott R, …, Walton DM, Wishart LR, Elliott JM. MuscleMap: An Open-Source, Community-Supported Consortium for Whole-Body Quantitative MRI of Muscle, Journal of Imaging, 2024;10(11):262. DOI
Elliott JM, Wesselink EO, Crawford RJ, Cornwall J, McKay M, Smith Z, Weber 2nd KA. Artificial Intelligence in Spine and Paraspinal Muscle Analysis, Adv Exp Med Biol, 2024;1462:465-473. DOI
Muhammad F, Weber KA, Bédard S, Haynes G, Smith L, Khan AF, Hameed S, Gray K, McGovern K, Rohan M, Ding L, Van Hal M, Douglas D, Al Tamimi M, Parrish TB, Dhaher Y, Smith ZA. Cervical Spinal Cord Morphometrics in Degenerative Cervical Myelopathy: Quantification using Normalized Compression Technique and Correlation with Neurological Dysfunctions, The Spine Journal, 2024;24:2045-2057. DOI
Muhammad F, Weber II KA, Rohan M, Smith ZA. Patterns of Cortical Thickness Alterations in Degenerative Cervical Myelopathy: Associations with Dexterity and Gait Dysfunctions, Brain Communications, 2024;6:fcae279. DOI
Snodgrass SJ, Weber II KA, Wesselink EO, Stanwell, Elliott JM. Reduced Cervical Muscle Fat Infiltrate is Associated with Self-Reported Recovery from Chronic Idiopathic Neck Pain over Six Months: A Magnetic Resonance Imaging Longitudinal Cohort Study, Journal of Clinical Medicine, 2024;13:4485. DOI
Pfyffer D, Hothorn T, Smith AC, Weber II KA, Grillhoesl A, Mach O, Draganich C, Berliner JC, Tefertiller C, Leister I, Maier DD, Schwab JM, Thompson A, Curt A, Freund P. Prognostic value of injury-spared tissue bridges for neurologic recovery 3 months after cervical spinal cord injury: a longitudinal multicenter study, Lancet Neurology, 2024;23:816-825. DOI
Smith AC, Ahmed RU, Weber II KA, Negahdar MJ, Gibson D, Rejc E, Boakye M. Spinal cord lesion MRI and behavioral outcomes in a miniature pig model of spinal cord injury: exploring preclinical potential through an ad hoc comparison with human SCI, Spinal Cord Series & Cases, 2024;10:44. DOI
Smith AC, Draganich C, Thornton WA, Berliner JC, Sevigny M, Charlifue S, Tefertiller C, Weber II KA. Response to Letter to the Editor on A single dermatome clinical prediction rule for independent walking one year after spinal cord injury, Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 2024;105:1411-1412. DOI
Wesselink EO, Pool-Goudzwaard A, Law CSW, De Leener B, Fenyo MB, Ello GM, Coppieters MW, Elliott JM, Mackey S, Weber II KA. Investigating the Associations between Lumbar Paraspinal Muscle Health and Age, BMI, Sex, physical activity, and back pain using an automated computer-vision model: A UK Biobank study. Spine J, 2024;24:1253-1266. DOI
Zhong YF, Dai YX, Li SP, Zhu KJ, Ran Y, Chen L, Ruan Y, Yu P, Li L, Li W, Xu CL, Sun X, Weber K, Kong DW, Yang F, Lin W, Chen J, Chen BL, Jiang H, Zhou YJ, Sheng B, Tian YZ, and Sun YL. Sagittal Balance Parameters Measurement on Cervical Spine MR Images Based on Superpixel Segmentation, Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 2024;12:1337808. DOI
Alazzam AM, Balance WB, Smith AC, Rejc E, Weber II KA, Trainer R, Gorgey AS. Peak Slope Ratio of the Recruitment Curves Compared to Muscle Evoked Potentials to Optimize Standing Configurations with Percutaneous Epidural Stimulation after Spinal Cord Injury, Journal of Clinical Medicine, 2024;13:1344. DOI
Wesselink EO Quantifying Lumbar Paraspinal Intramuscular Fat: Accuracy and Reliability of Automated Thresholding Models. Wesselink EO, Elliott JM, Pool-Goudzwaard A, Coppieters MW, Pevenage PP, Di Leva A, Weber II KA, North American Spine Society Journal, 2024:17:100313. DOI
Kaptan M, Pfyffer P, Konstantopoulos CG, Law CSW, Weber II KA, Glover G, Mackey S. Recent developments and future avenues for human corticospinal neuroimaging, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2024:18:1339881. DOI
Khan AF, Mohammadi E, Haynes G, Hameed S, Rohan M, Anderson DB, Weber KA 2nd, Muhammad F, Smith ZA. Evaluating tissue injury in cervical spondylotic myelopathy with spinal cord MRI: A Systematic Review, Eur Spine J, 2024;33:133-154. DOI
Smith AC, Draganich C, Thornton WA, Berliner JC, Sevigny M, Charlifue S, Tefertiller C, Weber II KA. A Single Dermatome Clinical Prediction Rule for Independent Walking 1 Year After Spinal Cord Injury, Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 2024;105:10-19. DOI
Perraton Z, Mosler AB, Lawrenson PR, Weber Ii K, Elliott JM, Wesselink EO, Crossley KM, Kemp JL, Stewart C, Girdwood M, King MG, Heerey JJ, Scholes MJ, Mentiplay BF, Semciw AI. The association between lateral hip muscle size/intramuscular fat infiltration and hip strength in active young adults with long standing hip/groin pain. Phys Ther Sport. 2024;65:95-101. DOI

2023

Falasinnu T, Hossain MD, Weber II KA, Helmick CG, Karim ME, Mackey S. The Problem of Pain in the United States: A Population-Based Characterization of Biopsychosocial Correlates of High Impact Chronic Pain Using the National Health Interview Survey, The Journal of Pain, 2023;24:1094-1103. DOI
Elliott JM, Walton DM, Albin SR, Courtney DM, Siegmund GP, Carroll LJ, Parrish TB, Weber II KA, Smith AC. Biopsychosocial Sequelae and Recovery Trajectories From Whiplash Injury Following a Motor Vehicle Collision, The Spine Journal, 2023;23:1028-1036. DOI
Draganich C, Weber II KA, Thornton WA, Berliner JC, Sevigny M, Charlifue S, Tefertiller C, Smith AC. Predicting Outdoor Walking 1 Year After Spinal Cord Injury: A Retrospective, Multisite External Validation Study, J Neurol Phys Ther, 2023;47:155-161. Academy of Neurologic Physical Therapy’s Golden Synapse Award: Most outstanding JNPT article published in 2023. DOI
Muhammad F, Baha A, Haynes G, Shakir H, Omini M, Martin M, Weber II K, Paliwal M, Van Hal M, Dickson D, Dhaher Y, Smith ZA. Isolating Neurological Deficits in Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy (CSM): A Case-Controlled Study Using the NIH Toolbox Motor Battery, Neurology: Clinical Practice, 2023;13:e200126. DOI
Berliner JC, O’Dell DR, Albin SR, Dungan D, Sevigny M, Elliott JM, Weber II KA, Abdie DR, Anderson JS, Rich AA, Seib CA, Sagan HGS, Smith AC. The influence of conventional T2 MRI indices in predicting who will walk outside one year after spinal cord injury, Journal of Spinal Cord Medicine, 2023;46:501-507. DOI
Wesselink EO, Pool JJM, Mollema J, Weber KA, Elliott JM, Coppieters M, Pool-Goudzwaard A. Is Paraspinal Fatty Infiltration Reversible by Means of Exercise Therapy in People with Low Back Pain?: A Systematic Review, Eur Spine J, 2023;32(3):787-796. DOI