Deep learning-based medical images segmentation of musculoskeletal anatomical structures: a survey of bottlenecks and strategies

L Bonaldi, A Pretto, C Pirri, F Uccheddu, CG Fontanella… - Bioengineering, 2023 - mdpi.com
By leveraging the recent development of artificial intelligence algorithms, several medical
sectors have benefited from using automatic segmentation tools from bioimaging to segment …

Advances in Machine Learning Processing of Big Data from Disease Diagnosis Sensors

S Lu, J Yang, Y Gu, D He, H Wu, W Sun, D Xu, C Li… - ACS …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Exploring accurate, noninvasive, and inexpensive disease diagnostic sensors is a critical
task in the fields of chemistry, biology, and medicine. The complexity of biological systems …

Skeleton graph-based ultrasound-ct non-rigid registration

Z Jiang, X Li, C Zhang, Y Bi… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Autonomous ultrasound (US) scanning has attracted increased attention, and it has been
seen as a potential solution to overcome the limitations of conventional US examinations …

Rethinking ultrasound augmentation: A physics-inspired approach

M Tirindelli, C Eilers, W Simson, M Paschali… - … Image Computing and …, 2021 - Springer
Medical Ultrasound (US), despite its wide use, is characterized by artefacts and operator
dependency. Those attributes hinder the gathering and utilization of US datasets for the …

Orientation-guided graph convolutional network for bone surface segmentation

A Rahman, WGC Bandara, JMJ Valanarasu… - … Conference on Medical …, 2022 - Springer
Due to imaging artifacts and low signal-to-noise ratio in ultrasound images, automatic bone
surface segmentation networks often produce fragmented predictions that can hinder the …

Validating a semi-automated technique for segmenting femoral articular cartilage on ultrasound images

MS Harkey, N Michel, C Kuenze, R Fajardo… - Cartilage, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Objective To validate a semi-automated technique to segment ultrasound-assessed femoral
cartilage without compromising segmentation accuracy to a traditional manual segmentation …

Knee bone models from ultrasound

B Hohlmann, P Broessner, L Phlippen… - IEEE transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The number of total knee arthroplasties performed worldwide is on the rise. Patient-specific
planning and implants may improve surgical outcomes but require 3-D models of the bones …

A Systematic Survey on Segmentation Algorithms for Musculoskeletal Tissues in Ultrasound Imaging

AH Ramakrishnan, M Rajappa, K Kirthivasan… - … Methods in Engineering, 2024 - Springer
Ultrasound imaging is widely used for the clinical assessment and study of musculoskeletal
tissues because of its capacity for real-time imaging, low cost, high availability and …

Simultaneous bone and shadow segmentation network using task correspondence consistency

A Rahman, JMJ Valanarasu, I Hacihaliloglu… - … Conference on Medical …, 2022 - Springer
Segmenting both bone surface and the corresponding acoustic shadow are fundamental
tasks in ultrasound (US) guided orthopedic procedures. However, these tasks are …

Annotation-guided encoder-decoder network for bone extraction in ultrasound-assisted orthopedic surgery

F Chen, P Xu, Y **e, D Zhang, H Liao, Z Zhao - Computers in Biology and …, 2022 - Elsevier
The patients and surgeons are usually exposed in massive ionizing radiation during
fluoroscopy-based navigation orthopedic surgery. Comparatively, ultrasound-assisted …