Purpose To construct and evaluate the performance of a machine learning model for bone segmentation using whole-body CT images. Materials and Methods In this retrospective study, whole-body CT scans (from June 2010 to January 2018) from 90 patients (...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2024
Osteocyte-lacunar bone structures are a discerning marker for bone pathophysiology, given their geometric alterations observed during aging and diseases. Deep Learning (DL) image analysis has showcased the potential to comprehend bone health associat...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2024
The accurate segmentation and modeling of bones play a crucial role in diagnosis and surgical planning in orthopedics. Traditional methods face challenges in capturing the fine details and complex structures present in cone-beam computed tomography (...
Journal of bone and mineral research : the official journal of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research
Mar 22, 2024
Artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots utilizing large language models (LLMs) have recently garnered significant interest due to their ability to generate humanlike responses to user inquiries in an interactive dialog format. While these models are be...
BACKGROUND: Patients with malignant tumors often develop bone metastases. SPECT bone scintigraphy is an effective tool for surveying bone metastases due to its high sensitivity, low-cost equipment, and radiopharmaceutical. However, the low spatial re...
Technology and health care : official journal of the European Society for Engineering and Medicine
Jan 1, 2024
BACKGROUND: Milling operations of laminae in spinal surgery generate high temperatures, which can lead to thermal injury and osteonecrosis and affect the biomechanical effects of implants, ultimately leading to surgical failure.
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2022
Craniosynostosis is a condition associated with the premature fusion of skull sutures affecting infants. 3D photogrammetric scans are a promising alternative to computed tomography scans in cases of single suture or nonsyndromic synostosis for diagno...
To investigate the effect of ultrasonic parameter settings on maximum temperatures in the drilling site and penetration time and determine the most suitable parameters for efficient and safe robot-based ultrasonic bone drilling in spinal surgery. F...
Advances in experimental medicine and biology
Jan 1, 2022
A new application of ultrasonography has been emerging in the bone quantitative ultrasound arena in the last twenty years: cortical bone characterization using axial transmission ultrasound (ATU). Although challenged by the complicated cortical tissu...
OBJECTIVE: This study proposes an automated classification of benign and malignant in highly integrated regions in bone single-photon emission computed tomography/computed tomography (SPECT/CT) using a three-dimensional deep convolutional neural netw...