International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery
Apr 4, 2024
PURPOSE: In medical research, deep learning models rely on high-quality annotated data, a process often laborious and time-consuming. This is particularly true for detection tasks where bounding box annotations are required. The need to adjust two co...
International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery
Apr 3, 2024
PURPOSE: Automated endoscopy video analysis is essential for assisting surgeons during medical procedures, but it faces challenges due to complex surgical scenes and limited annotated data. Large-scale pretraining has shown great success in natural l...
International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery
Apr 1, 2024
Purpose Surgical workflow recognition is a challenging task that requires understanding multiple aspects of surgery, such as gestures, phases, and steps. However, most existing methods focus on single-task or single-modal models and rely on costly an...
International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery
Mar 27, 2024
PURPOSE: Motor neuron disease (MND) causes damage to the upper and lower motor neurons including the motor cranial nerves, the latter resulting in bulbar involvement with atrophy of the tongue muscle. To measure tongue atrophy, an operator independen...
International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery
Mar 23, 2024
PURPOSE: Accurate and rapid needle localization on 3D magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is critical for MRI-guided percutaneous interventions. The current workflow requires manual needle localization on 3D MRI, which is time-consuming and cumbersome. ...
International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery
Mar 13, 2024
PURPOSE: The assessment of vulnerable plaque characteristics and distribution is important to stratify cardiovascular risk in a patient. Computed tomography angiography (CTA) offers a promising alternative to invasive imaging but is limited by the fa...
International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery
Mar 12, 2024
PURPOSE: Progression of hip osteoarthritis (hip OA) leads to pain and disability, likely leading to surgical treatment such as hip arthroplasty at the terminal stage. The severity of hip OA is often classified using the Crowe and Kellgren-Lawrence (K...
International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery
Feb 27, 2024
PURPOSE: Traditional techniques for automating the planning of brain electrode placement based on multi-objective optimization involving many parameters are subject to limitations, especially in terms of sensitivity to local optima, and tend to be re...
International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery
Feb 25, 2024
PURPOSE: Patient-specific biomechanical models of the knee joint can effectively aid in understanding the reasons for pathologies and improve diagnostic methods and treatment procedures. For deeper research of knee diseases, the development of biomec...
International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery
Feb 22, 2024
PURPOSE: Intracardiac transcatheter interventions allow for reducing trauma and hospitalization stays as compared to standard surgery. In the treatment of mitral regurgitation, the most widely adopted transcatheter approach consists in deploying a cl...