2 papers
q-bio.TO2019
Association of bone mineral density with reoperation rate following instrumented lumbar spinal fusion
Maximilian T. Löffler, Niklas Loreck, Johannes Kaesmacher +7
Low bone mineral density (BMD) is believed to influence the outcome of instrumented spinal surgery and can lead to reoperation. Purpose of this observational and case-control study…
eess.IV2019
Probabilistic Point Cloud Reconstructions for Vertebral Shape Analysis
Anjany Sekuboyina, Markus Rempfler, Alexander Valentinitsch +3
We propose an auto-encoding network architecture for point clouds (PC) capable of extracting shape signatures without supervision. Building on this, we (i) design a loss function c…