Coarse-to-fine localization of anatomical landmarks in CT images based on multi-scale local appearance and rotation-invariant spatial landmark distribution model

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mitsutaka Nemoto ◽  
Yoshitaka Masutani ◽  
Shouhei Hanaoka ◽  
Yukihiro Nomura ◽  
Soichiro Miki ◽  
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2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (10) ◽  
pp. 2618-2625
Author(s):  
R. T. Subhalakshmi ◽  
S. Appavu Alias Balamurugan ◽  
S. Sasikala

In recent times, the COVID-19 epidemic turn out to be increased in an extreme manner, by the accessibility of an inadequate amount of rapid testing kits. Consequently, it is essential to develop the automated techniques for Covid-19 detection to recognize the existence of disease from the radiological images. The most ordinary symptoms of COVID-19 are sore throat, fever, and dry cough. Symptoms are able to progress to a rigorous type of pneumonia with serious impediment. As medical imaging is not recommended currently in Canada for crucial COVID-19 diagnosis, systems of computer-aided diagnosis might aid in early COVID-19 abnormalities detection and help out to observe the disease progression, reduce mortality rates potentially. In this approach, a deep learning based design for feature extraction and classification is employed for automatic COVID-19 diagnosis from computed tomography (CT) images. The proposed model operates on three main processes based pre-processing, feature extraction, and classification. The proposed design incorporates the fusion of deep features using GoogLe Net models. Finally, Multi-scale Recurrent Neural network (RNN) based classifier is applied for identifying and classifying the test CT images into distinct class labels. The experimental validation of the proposed model takes place using open-source COVID-CT dataset, which comprises a total of 760 CT images. The experimental outcome defined the superior performance with the maximum sensitivity, specificity, and accuracy.


2021 ◽  
pp. 546-554
Author(s):  
Jiameng Liu ◽  
Zhiming Cui ◽  
Yuhang Sun ◽  
Caiwen Jiang ◽  
Zirong Chen ◽  
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Author(s):  
Merrill Lee ◽  
Jade Pei Yuik Ho ◽  
Jerry Yongqiang Chen ◽  
Chung Kia Ng ◽  
Seng Jin Yeo ◽  
...  

Abstract Background Restoration of the anatomical joint line, while important for clinical outcomes, is difficult to achieve in revision total knee arthroplasty (rTKA) due to distal femoral bone loss. The objective of this study was to determine a reliable method of restoring the anatomical joint line and posterior condylar offset in the setting of rTKA based on three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction of computed tomography (CT) images of the distal femur. Methods CT scans of 50 lower limbs were analyzed. Key anatomical landmarks such as the medial epicondyle (ME), lateral epicondyle, and transepicondylar width (TEW) were determined on 3D models constructed from the CT images. Best-fit planes placed on the most distal and posterior loci of points on the femoral condyles were used to define the distal and posterior joint lines, respectively. Statistical analysis was performed to determine the relationships between the anatomical landmarks and the distal and posterior joint lines. Results There was a strong correlation between the distance from the ME to the distal joint line of the medial condyle (MEDC) and the distance from the ME to the posterior joint line of the medial condyle (MEPC) (p < 0.001; r = 0.865). The mean ratio of MEPC to MEDC was 1.06 (standard deviation [SD]: 0.07; range: 0.88–1.27) and that of MEPC to TEW was 0.33 (SD: 0.03; range: 0.25–0.38). Conclusions Our findings suggest that the fixed ratios of MEPC to TEW (0.33) and that of MEPC to MEDC (1.06) provide a reliable means for the surgeon to determine the anatomical joint line when used in combination.


2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (12) ◽  
pp. 4676-4687
Author(s):  
Yifan Zuo ◽  
Yuming Fang ◽  
Yong Yang ◽  
Xiwu Shang ◽  
Qiang Wu
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Author(s):  
Mingchen Gao ◽  
Yiqiang Zhan ◽  
Gerardo Hermosillo ◽  
Yoshihisa Shinagawa ◽  
Dimitris Metaxas ◽  
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