IEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics
Jul 27, 2021
Vertebra segmentation from biplanar whole-spine radiographs is highly demanded in the quantitative assessment of scoliosis and the resultant sagittal deformities. However, automatic vertebra segmentation from the radiographs is extremely challenging ...
Modern radiologic images comply with DICOM (digital imaging and communications in medicine) standard, which, upon conversion to other image format, would lose its image detail and information such as patient demographics or type of image modality tha...
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...
Adult spinal deformity (ASD) is a complex and heterogeneous disease that can severely impact patients' lives. While it is clear that surgical correction can achieve significant improvement of spinopelvic parameters and quality of life measures in adu...
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 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...
Accurate and robust segmentation of anatomical structures from magnetic resonance images is valuable in many computer-aided clinical tasks. Traditional codec networks are not satisfactory because of their low accuracy of edge segmentation, the low re...
Robotic-assisted technology has shown to be promising in coronary and peripheral vascular interventions. Early case reports have also demonstrated its efficacy in neuro-interventions. However, there is no prior report demonstrating use of the robotic...
The international journal of medical robotics + computer assisted surgery : MRCAS
Feb 15, 2021
BACKGROUND: Two-dimensional (2D)-3D registration is challenging in the presence of implant projections on intraoperative images, which can limit the registration capture range. Here, we investigate the use of deep-learning-based inpainting for removi...