International journal of environmental research and public health
Sep 5, 2022
The purpose of this study was to report the clinical validation of the posture analyzing and virtual reconstruction device (PAViR) system, focusing on the accuracy of sagittal spinal parameters, compared with the EOS imaging system. Seventy patients ...
The continuous progress of research and clinical trials has offered a wide variety of information concerning the spine and the treatment of the different spinal pathologies that may occur. Planning the best therapy for each patient could be a very di...
PURPOSE: Over 4.83 million spine surgery procedures are performed annually around the world. With the considerable caseload and the precision needed to achieve optimal spinal instrumentation, technical progress has helped to improve the technique's s...
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 ...
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