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Measurement of the Cobb angle from the estimated position of vertebral bodies. To measure the Cobb angle, a curve was first fit to the 17 positions of vertebrae using a cubic B-spline, and then the angles were calculated between the 2 lines perpendicular to the curve at the midpoint between the top criterion vertebra and the vertebra above it.
