Medical & biological engineering & computing
Jun 9, 2022
The accuracy of the Cobb measurement is essential for the diagnosis and treatment of scoliosis. Manual measurement is however influenced by the observer variability hence affecting progression evaluation. In this paper, we propose a fully automatic C...
IEEE transactions on neural networks and learning systems
Jun 1, 2022
Accurate identification and localization of the vertebrae in CT scans is a critical and standard pre-processing step for clinical spinal diagnosis and treatment. Existing methods are mainly based on the integration of multiple neural networks, and mo...
The Journal of bone and joint surgery. American volume
May 4, 2022
Surgical robots were invented in the 1980s, and since then, robotic-assisted surgery has become commonplace. In the field of spine surgery, robotic assistance is utilized mainly to place pedicle screws, and multiple studies have demonstrated that rob...
The international journal of medical robotics + computer assisted surgery : MRCAS
May 2, 2022
BACKGROUND: Detecting neural threats using electromyography (EMG) has gained recognition in the field of spinal surgery. To provide an efficient approach to detect neural threats during the operation of the spinal surgery robot, an automated method b...
International journal for numerical methods in biomedical engineering
Apr 26, 2022
This article presents an effort toward building an artificial intelligence (AI) assisted framework, coined ReconGAN, for creating a realistic digital twin of the human vertebra and predicting the risk of vertebral fracture (VF). ReconGAN consists of ...
European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society
Apr 2, 2022
PURPOSE: Artificial intelligence based on deep learning (DL) approaches enables the automatic recognition of anatomic landmarks and subsequent estimation of various spinopelvic parameters. The locations of inflection points (IPs) and apices (APs) in ...
The preoperative qualitative and hierarchical diagnosis of intervertebral foramen stenosis is very important for clinicians to explore the effect of multimodal analgesia nursing on pain control after spinal fusion and to formulate treatment strategie...
The lumbar spine plays a very important role in our load transfer and mobility. Vertebrae localization and segmentation are useful in detecting spinal deformities and fractures. Understanding of automated medical imagery is of main importance to help...
To help doctors and patients evaluate lumbar intervertebral disc degeneration (IVDD) accurately and efficiently, we propose a segmentation network and a quantitation method for IVDD from T2MRI. A semantic segmentation network (BianqueNet) composed of...