BACKGROUND: Osteoporosis is an asymptomatic disease of high prevalence and incidence, leading to bone fractures burdened by high mortality and disability, mainly when several subsequent fractures occur. A fragility fracture predictive model, Artifici...
The spine journal : official journal of the North American Spine Society
Feb 2, 2021
BACKGROUND CONTEXT: Accurately predicting the survival of patients with spinal metastases is important for guiding surgical intervention. The SORG machine-learning (ML) algorithm for the 90-day and one-year mortality of patients with metastatic cance...
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Jan 25, 2021
New medical research concerning the spine and its diseases are incrementally made available through biomedical literature repositories. Several Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks, like Semantic Role Labelling (SRL) and Information Extraction (IE...
Computerized medical imaging and graphics : the official journal of the Computerized Medical Imaging Society
Jan 11, 2021
Periodic inspection and assessment are important for scoliosis patients. 3D ultrasound imaging has become an important means of scoliosis assessment as it is a real-time, cost-effective and radiation-free imaging technique. With the generation of a 3...
Automated medical report generation in spine radiology, i.e., given spinal medical images and directly create radiologist-level diagnosis reports to support clinical decision making, is a novel yet fundamental study in the domain of artificial intell...
BACKGROUND: Robotic guidance (RG) pedicle screw placement has been increasingly used to improve the rate of insertion accuracy. However, the superiority of the RG technique over computer-assisted navigation (CAN) remains debatable.
The international journal of medical robotics + computer assisted surgery : MRCAS
Sep 28, 2020
BACKGROUND: Medical robotics has enabled a significant advancement in the field of modern spine surgery, especially in pedicle screw fixation. A plethora of studies focused on the accuracy of pedicle fixation in robotic-assisted (RA) technology. Howe...
The spine journal : official journal of the North American Spine Society
Sep 22, 2020
BACKGROUND CONTEXT: The introduction and integration of robot technology into modern spine surgery provides surgeons with millimeter accuracy for pedicle screw placement. Coupled with computer-based navigation platforms, robot-assisted spine surgery ...
Spine surgery is continuously evolving. The synergy between medical imaging and advances in computation has allowed for stereotactic neuronavigation and its integration with robotic technology to assist in spine surgery. The discovery of x-rays in 18...
Bone marrow fat (BMF) fraction quantification in vertebral bodies is used as a novel imaging biomarker to assess and characterize chronic lower back pain. However, manual segmentation of vertebral bodies is time consuming and laborious. (1) Develop...