This paper presents a mathematical model that can be used to virtually reconstruct the
posture of the human spine. By using orientation angles from a wearable monitoring system …

Three of the seven leading causes of disability globally are musculoskeletal in origin, with
two involving the spine. 1, 2 Disease burden diminishes the quality of our ever-increasing …

Background and objective Conventional information systems are built on top of a relational
database. The main weakness of these systems is impossibility to define stable data schema …

In this paper we present novel methods and algorithms for augmenting a foot 3D model in
realtime. By overlaying reconstructed anatomical contents onto user's field of view via an …

Background The main objective of the present method was to automatically obtain a spatial
curve of the thoracic and lumbar spine based on a 3D shape measurement of a human torso …

Carotid atherosclerosis is the main cause of fatal cerebral ischemic events, thereby posing a
major burden for public health and state economies. We propose a web-based platform …

One of the major concerns of scoliosis patients undergoing surgical treatment is the
aesthetic aspect of the surgery outcome. It would be useful to predict the postoperative …

The main objective of this letter is to formulate a new approach of learning a Mahalanobis
distance metric for nearest neighbor regression from a training sample set. We propose a …

One of the most challenging tasks in non-invasive diagnosis of Adolescent Idiopathic
Scoliosis (AIS) is to find the correlation between internal spinal deformity and external shape …

BACKGROUND: Although intensively investigated, the procedures for assessment and
monitoring of scoliosis are still a subject of controversies. OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study …