Automate computation of the BASIC score

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Goal

Automate computation of the BASIC score.

Description

The BASIC (Brain and Spinal Injury Center) score was originally proposed by Talbott et al., 2015. It classifies spinal cord injury (SCI) severity into 5 categories (ranging from 0 to 4) based on T2w axial images:

Ideas

Ideas raised during the brainstorming with Jason Talbott on 2024-04-03:

• The BASIC score has overlaps with SC and lesions segmentations. Probably could be combined? Maybe the segmentation features could be useful. --> Potentially related to SCIseg.
• The BASIC score is mostly computed from axial images. How to deal with sagittal images?
• Maybe the axial damage ratio (computed as the ratio of the lesion area divided by the spinal cord area) available in sct_analyze_lesion might be relevant.