Acknowledgements

The PILLAR project was a collaboration between the INSPIRE lab and HEALTH-X Lab at Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Canada. All authors contributed to the conceptualization of the website and manuscript. This project was supported by a network pilot grant from The Quebec Bio-Imaging Network (FRQS-RBIQ) and a Multidisciplinary Research Grant from the PERFORM Centre. MF is supported by the Fond de la Recherche en Santé du Québec (FRSQ – Chercheur boursier Junior 1).

The contributors to the PILLAR project:

• Meagan Anstruther
• Tongwei Zhang
• Terrance Liang
• Bianca Rossini
• Yiming Xiao
• Maryse Fortin

Contact email: concordia.inspirelab@gmail.com

Please cite the following article when using the PILLAR Project resource:

Anstruther, M., Rossini, B., Zhang, T., Liang, Terrance, Xiao, Y., Fortin, M., PILLAR: ParaspInaL muscLe segmentAtion pRoject - a comprehensive online resource to guide manual segmentation of paraspinal muscles from magnetic resonance imaging. BMC Musculoskelet Disord 24, 909 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12891-023-07029-x