The spine journal : official journal of the North American Spine Society
Oct 21, 2022
BACKGROUND CONTEXT: Navigated and robotic pedicle screw placement systems have been developed to improve the accuracy of screw placement. However, the literature comparing the safety and accuracy of robotic and navigated screw placement with fluorosc...
The spine journal : official journal of the North American Spine Society
Jul 14, 2022
BACKGROUND CONTEXT: Historically, spine surgeons used expected postoperative survival of 3-months to help select candidates for operative intervention in spinal metastasis. However, this cutoff has been challenged by the development of minimally inva...
The spine journal : official journal of the North American Spine Society
Aug 15, 2021
BACKGROUND CONTEXT: The increasing volume of free-text notes available in electronic health records has created an opportunity for natural language processing (NLP) algorithms to mine this unstructured data in order to detect and predict adverse outc...
The spine journal : official journal of the North American Spine Society
May 19, 2021
BACKGROUND CONTEXT: Robot-assisted spine surgery continues to rapidly develop as evidenced by the growing literature in recent years. In addition to demonstrating excellent pedicle screw accuracy, early studies have explored the impact of robot-assis...
The spine journal : official journal of the North American Spine Society
May 8, 2021
As we experience a technological revolution unlike any other time in history, spinal surgery as a discipline is poised to undergo a dramatic transformation. As enormous amounts of data become digitized and more readily available, medical professional...
The spine journal : official journal of the North American Spine Society
Mar 27, 2021
In the last 5 years, artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms have made rapid advances for diagnosis and prognosis in fields ranging from dermatology to anesthesiology. How do we make sense of the rise of AI in healthcare and specifically in spine? Ho...
The spine journal : official journal of the North American Spine Society
Mar 13, 2021
BACKGROUND CONTEXT: Accurate diagnosis of osteoporotic vertebral fracture (OVF) is important for improving treatment outcomes; however, the gold standard has not been established yet. A deep-learning approach based on convolutional neural network (CN...
The spine journal : official journal of the North American Spine Society
Feb 2, 2021
BACKGROUND CONTEXT: Accurately predicting the survival of patients with spinal metastases is important for guiding surgical intervention. The SORG machine-learning (ML) algorithm for the 90-day and one-year mortality of patients with metastatic cance...
The spine journal : official journal of the North American Spine Society
Feb 1, 2021
BACKGROUND CONTEXT: Timely intervention in growing individuals, such as brace treatment, relies on early detection of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS). To this end, several screening methods have been implemented. However, these methods have lim...