Orthopedics

Bridging Health Literacy Gaps in Spine Care: Using ChatGPT-4o to Improve Patient-Education Materials.

BACKGROUND: Patient-education materials (PEMs) are essential to improve health literacy, engagement, and treatment adherence, yet many exceed the recommended readability levels. Therefore, individuals with limited health literacy are at a disadvantage. This study evaluated the readability of spine-related PEMs from the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS), the North American Spine Socie...

Correction: Machine learning-based survival models for predicting rehospitalization of older hip fracture patients: a retrospective cohort study.

Defining Clinically Meaningful Subgroups in Patients Undergoing Arthroscopic Rotator Cuff Repair Using Unsupervised Machine Learning.

BACKGROUND: Outcomes after arthroscopic rotator cuff repair (RCR) are frequently measured through clinically significant outcomes (CSOs) such as the m...

A Coarse-to-Fine Multi-Hypothesis Method for Ambiguous Hand Pose Estimation.

In hand pose estimation, challenges such as occlusion often result in partial observation of a human hand, making it difficult to uniquely determine t...

TCFNet: Bidirectional face-bone transformation via a Transformer-based coarse-to-fine point movement network.

Computer-aided surgical simulation is a critical component of orthognathic surgical planning, where accurately simulating face-bone shape transformati...

Melioidosis molecular diagnostics: An update.

Melioidosis, a fatal tropical disease, presents a wide array of clinical manifestations, including abscesses, pneumonia, septic shock, bacteraemia, os...

Investigating the potential risk of cadmium exposure on Osteoporosis: An integrated multi-omics approach.

Osteoporosis (OP) is a chronic progressive bone disease, and its occurrence and development under cadmium exposure remain unclear. This study aims to ...

Retinal Vessel Traits and Age-Related Eye Disease in the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging.

BACKGROUND: To cross-sectionally and longitudinally examine whether retinal vessel traits are associated with glaucoma-related outcomes (glaucoma, cup...

Machine learning-based models for outcome prediction in skull base and spinal chordomas: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

BACKGROUND: Chordomas are primary bone lesions originating from embryonic notochord remnants, most commonly developing along the skull base and spine....

Lumbar spinal stenosis: current concept of management.

Lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS) is a common degenerative spinal condition where spinal canal narrowing causes symptoms such as neurogenic claudication, r...

Current Concepts on Imaging and Artificial Intelligence of Osteosarcopenia in the Aging Spine - A Review for Spinal Surgeons by the SRS Adult Spinal Deformity Task Force on Senescence.

STUDY DESIGN: Narrative review.

In vitro processes alter the embryonic disc epigenome and transcriptome in the pre-implantation elongated bovine embryo†.

The objective was to quantify the effect of the in vitro procedures on the epigenome and transcriptome of the embryonic disc (ED) and extra-embryonic ...

Automated quantitative analysis of peri-articular bone microarchitecture in HR-pQCT knee images.

UNLABELLED: Applying HR-pQCT to image the knee necessitates the development and validation of novel image analysis workflows. Here, we present and val...

Acoustic monitoring for tropical insect conservation.

Monitoring the species-specific sounds produced by insects could provide us with a rapid, reliable, non-invasive measure of tropical ecosystem health ...

Artificial intelligence-based quantitative bone marrow pathology analysis for myeloproliferative neoplasms.

The evaluation of bone marrow pathology is essential for diagnosing and classifying myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs). However, morphological assess...

DeepHeme, a high-performance, generalizable deep ensemble for bone marrow morphometry and hematologic diagnosis.

Cytomorphological analysis of the bone marrow aspirate (BMA) is pivotal for the diagnostic workup of a broad range of hematological disorders. However...

Surgery for Lumbar Disc Herniation: Surgeon's Clinical Judgment Versus Actual Improvement in Patient Reported Outcomes.

Study DesignLongitudinal Cohort.ObjectivesTo determine if a surgeon's clinical judgment can predict clinical outcomes after surgery for LDH.MethodsSur...

Arthroscopy-validated diagnostic performance of sub-5-min deep learning super-resolution 3T knee MRI in children and adolescents.

OBJECTIVE: This study aims to determine the diagnostic performance of sub-5-min combined sixfold parallel imaging (PIx3)-simultaneous multislice (SMSx...

Machine learning is changing osteoporosis detection: an integrative review.

Machine learning drives osteoporosis detection and screening with higher clinical accuracy and accessibility than traditional osteoporosis screening t...

Microgel double-crosslinked hydrogel with excellent mechanical properties for flexible electronics.

Hydrogels are limited in practical applications due to insufficient mechanical properties. While microgels (MGs) and active MGs enhance hydrogel tough...