Orthopedics

Protective Effect of Tetrandrine in a Rabbit Model of Osteoarthritis.

OBJECTIVES: This study aims to investigate the antiinflammatory effect of tetrandrine in a rabbit model of osteoarthritis.

Computerized Bone Age Estimation Using Deep Learning Based Program: Evaluation of the Accuracy and Efficiency.

OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study is to evaluate the accuracy and efficiency of a new automatic software system for bone age assessment and to validate its feasibility in clinical practice.

A machine learning approach for the identification of new biomarkers for knee osteoarthritis development in overweight and obese women.

OBJECTIVE: Knee osteoarthritis (OA) is among the higher contributors to global disability. Despite its high prevalence, currently, there is no cure fo...

Automated arteriole and venule classification using deep learning for retinal images from the UK Biobank cohort.

The morphometric characteristics of the retinal vasculature are associated with future risk of many systemic and vascular diseases. However, analysis ...

Optimisation of a machine learning algorithm in human locomotion using principal component and discriminant function analyses.

Assessment methods in human locomotion often involve the description of normalised graphical profiles and/or the extraction of discrete variables. Whi...

The Effect of an In-Hospital Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment on Short-Term Mortality During Orthogeriatric Hip Fracture Program-Which Patients Benefit the Most?

AIMS: To examine the association of patient-related factors with the effect of an in-hospital comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA) on hip fracture...

Machine learning techniques for the optimization of joint replacements: Application to a short-stem hip implant.

Today, different implant designs exist in the market; however, there is not a clear understanding of which are the best implant design parameters to a...

Strategy of metal iron doping and green-mediated ZnO nanoparticles: dissolubility, antibacterial and cytotoxic traits.

Undoped and Fe-doped ZnO nanoparticles (NPs) were synthesized using leaf extract as a reducing agent. The physicochemical traits, dissolution, cytoto...

DXAGE: A New Method for Age at Death Estimation Based on Femoral Bone Mineral Density and Artificial Neural Networks.

Age at death estimation in adult skeletons is hampered, among others, by the unremarkable correlation of bone estimators with chronological age, imple...

Hyaluronic Acid Intra-Articular Injections in Patients Affected by Moderate to Severe Glenohumeral Osteoarthritis: A Prospective Randomized Study.

 The aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy and safety of intra-articular injection treatment with high molecular weight HA (Hyalubrix, 30 mg...

Fuzzy Object Skeletonization: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications.

Skeletonization offers a compact representation of an object while preserving important topological and geometrical features. Literature on skeletoniz...

Continuing versus discontinuing antiplatelet drugs, vasodilators, and/or cerebral ameliorators on perioperative total blood loss in total knee arthroplasty without pneumatic tourniquet.

BACKGROUND: Although studies have supported the utility of perioperative continuation of antiplatelet drugs, vasodilators, and cerebral ameliorators i...

Robotic technology in interventional cardiology: Current status and future perspectives.

Robotic technology has been utilized in cardiovascular medicine for over a decade, and over that period, its use has been expanded to percutaneous cor...

An expert system feedback tool improves the reliability of clinical gait kinematics for older adults with lower limb osteoarthritis.

Recently, an expert system was developed to provide feedback to examiners with the aim of improving reliability of marker-based gait analysis. The pur...

Discriminative clustering on manifold for adaptive transductive classification.

In this paper, we mainly propose a novel adaptive transductive label propagation approach by joint discriminative clustering on manifolds for represen...

Anatomic and non-anatomic anterior cruciate ligament posterolateral bundle augmentation affects graft function.

PURPOSE: The purpose of this study is to compare knee laxity and graft function (tissue force) between anatomic and non-anatomic posterolateral (PL) b...

What are the six degree-of-freedom errors of a robotically-machined femoral cavity in total hip arthroplasty and are they clinically important? An in-vitro study.

Errors during a robot-assisted THA may result in a femoral cavity with position and orientation different than planned. This can lead to a femoral com...

Research on Safety and Compliance of a New Lower Limb Rehabilitation Robot.

The lower limb rehabilitation robot is an application of robotic technology for stroke people with lower limb disabilities. A new applicable and effec...

Physical and chemical stability of ceftaroline in an elastomeric infusion device.

BACKGROUND: Severe infections such as endocarditis and osteomyelitis require long-term treatment with parenteral antibiotics and hence prolonged hospi...

Deep convolutional neural network and 3D deformable approach for tissue segmentation in musculoskeletal magnetic resonance imaging.

PURPOSE: To describe and evaluate a new fully automated musculoskeletal tissue segmentation method using deep convolutional neural network (CNN) and t...