Radiotherapy and oncology : journal of the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology
Apr 29, 2025
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: The most common adverse event following spine stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) is vertebral compression fracture (VCF). There is interest in the development of patient-specific tools that can predict those at high risk of...
BACKGROUND: The extension of onboard cone-beam CT (CBCT) imaging for real-time treatment planning is constrained by limitations in image quality. Synthetic CT (sCT) generation using deep learning provides a potential solution to these limitations.
The spine journal : official journal of the North American Spine Society
Mar 27, 2025
BACKGROUND CONTEXT: A machine learning (ML) model was recently developed to predict massive intraoperative blood loss (>2,500 mL) during posterior decompressive surgery for spinal metastasis that performed well on external validation within the same ...
The spine journal : official journal of the North American Spine Society
Mar 26, 2025
BACKGROUND CONTEXT: When treating spinal metastases in a palliative setting, maintaining or enhancing quality of life (QoL) is the primary therapeutic objective. Clinicians tailor their treatment strategy by weighing the QoL benefits against expected...
Cancer imaging : the official publication of the International Cancer Imaging Society
Mar 13, 2025
BACKGROUND: Accurate segmentation of pelvic and sacral tumors (PSTs) in multi-sequence magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is essential for effective treatment and surgical planning.
RATIONALE AND OBJECTIVES: To generate virtual T1 contrast-enhanced (T1CE) sequences from plain spinal MRI sequences using the denoising diffusion probabilistic model (DDPM) and to compare its performance against one baseline model pix2pix and three a...
Journal of magnetic resonance imaging : JMRI
Jan 27, 2025
BACKGROUND: The spinal column is a frequent site for metastases, affecting over 30% of solid tumor patients. Identifying the primary tumor is essential for guiding clinical decisions but often requires resource-intensive diagnostics.
The spine journal : official journal of the North American Spine Society
Jan 11, 2025
BACKGROUND: In clinical practice, distinguishing between spinal tuberculosis (STB) and spinal tumors (ST) poses a significant diagnostic challenge. The application of AI-driven large language models (LLMs) shows great potential for improving the accu...
OBJECTIVE: The prognostic significance of body composition phenotypes for survival in patients undergoing surgical intervention for spinal metastases has not yet been elucidated. This study aimed to elucidate the impact of body composition phenotypes...
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