Orthopedics

Inferring material properties in robotic bone drilling processes.

PURPOSE: Recent innovations in robotics have enabled the development of automatic bone drilling tools which allows surgeons to improve the precision of their surgical operations. However, these tools still lack valuable tactile information about the material properties of the bone, preventing surgeons from making decisions while operating. The aim of this work is to explore whether robotic drillin...

Carpal Bone Segmentation Using Fully Convolutional Neural Network.

BACKGROUND: Bone Age Assessment (BAA) refers to a clinical procedure that aims to identify a discrepancy between biological and chronological age of an individual by assessing the bone age growth. Currently, there are two main methods of executing BAA which are known as Greulich-Pyle and Tanner-Whitehouse techniques. Both techniques involve a manual and qualitative assessment of hand and wrist rad...

High-Mobility Group Box 1 Expression in Mandibular Bone Cells of Experimental Periodontitis.

BACKGROUND: High-mobility group box 1 (HMGB1) was suggested to be associated with the pathogenesis of chronic periodontitis which characterized by alv...

Laterality Classification of Fundus Images Using Interpretable Deep Neural Network.

In this paper, we aimed to understand and analyze the outputs of a convolutional neural network model that classifies the laterality of fundus images....

Robot-assisted vs. conventional unicompartmental knee arthroplasty : Systematic review and meta-analysis.

Numerous advances have been made in prosthesis design, instrumentation and postoperative rehabilitation for unicompartmental knee arthroplasty; howeve...

[Digitalization and artificial intelligence in orthopedics and traumatology].

In the course of digitalization it is becoming increasingly rare for medical documents to be handwritten. As a result, digitalization has already beco...

[Astragalus polysaccharide combined with cisplatin inhibits growth of recurrent tumor and down-regulats the expression of CD44, CD62P and osteopontin in tumor tissues in mice bearing Lewis lung cancer].

Objective To investigate the effects of Astragalus polysaccharide (APS) combined with cisplatin (DDP) on the pathological morphology of recurrent tumo...

Efficacy, chondrotoxicity and plasma concentrations of tramadol following intra-articular administration in horses undergoing arthroscopy: preliminary findings.

Intra-articular administration of analgesics is performed to ensure good perioperative pain management avoiding undesirable systemic effects. To evalu...

[rhPDGF-BB promotes migration of bone marrow stromal stem cells in diabetic rats].

PURPOSE: To evaluate the effect of different concentrations of rhPDGF-BB on bone marrow stromal stem cells(BMSCs) migration in diabetic rat, and relat...

Dexamethasone Versus Ketamine in the Interscalene Block in Patients Undergoing Arthroscopic Shoulder Surgery: A Randomized Double-Blinded Study.

OBJECTIVE: Arthroscopic shoulder surgery (ASS) is often followed by severe pain. Interscalene brachial plexus block (ISB) was used to relieve such pai...

Development of machine learning algorithms for prediction of discharge disposition after elective inpatient surgery for lumbar degenerative disc disorders.

OBJECTIVEIf not anticipated and prearranged, hospital stay can be prolonged while the patient awaits placement in a rehabilitation unit or skilled nur...

Automated Pathogenesis-Based Diagnosis of Lumbar Neural Foraminal Stenosis via Deep Multiscale Multitask Learning.

Pathogenesis-based diagnosis is a key step to prevent and control lumbar neural foraminal stenosis (LNFS). It conducts both early diagnosis and compre...

[Big data and deep learning in preventive and rehabilitation medicine].

The digitalization in medicine has led to almost universal availability of information to different healthcare professionals and accelerated clinical ...

[Robotics-mechanical bridge between imaging and patient].

BACKGROUND: There are still a high number of dissatisfied knee arthroplasty patients. This situation has not changed much for decades, despite many in...

Does Extracorporeal Irradiation and Reimplantation After Acetabular Resections Result in Adequate Hip Function? A Preliminary Report.

BACKGROUND: Pelvic resections are challenging, and reconstruction of the resected acetabulum to restore mobility and stability is even more difficult....

Antifibrinolytic Therapy in Surgery for Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis Does the Level 1 Evidence Translate to Practice?

INTRODUCTION: Previous randomized controlled trials have demonstrated the efficacy of antifibrinolytic agents in the reduction of intraoperative blood...

MABAL: a Novel Deep-Learning Architecture for Machine-Assisted Bone Age Labeling.

Bone age assessment (BAA) is a commonly performed diagnostic study in pediatric radiology to assess skeletal maturity. The most commonly utilized meth...

Joint Optic Disc and Cup Segmentation Based on Multi-Label Deep Network and Polar Transformation.

Glaucoma is a chronic eye disease that leads to irreversible vision loss. The cup to disc ratio (CDR) plays an important role in the screening and dia...

Automated Assessment of Bone Age Using Deep Learning and Gaussian Process Regression.

Bone age is an essential measure of skeletal maturity in children with growth disorders. It is typically assessed by a trained physician using radiogr...

A Unified Optic Nerve Head and Optic Cup Segmentation Using Unsupervised Neural Networks for Glaucoma Screening.

Segmentation of retinal anatomical features such as optic nerve head (ONH) and optic cup, the brightest area in the center of ONH which is devoid of n...