3 papers
eess.IV2024
Automatic Ultrasound Curve Angle Measurement via Affinity Clustering for Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis Evaluation
Yihao Zhou, Timothy Tin-Yan Lee, Kelly Ka-Lee Lai +8
The current clinical gold standard for evaluating adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) is X-ray radiography, using Cobb angle measurement. However, the frequent monitoring of the…
cs.RO2022
Reliability of Robotic Ultrasound Scanning for Scoliosis Assessment in Comparison with Manual Scanning
Maria Victorova, Heidi Hin Ting Lau, Timothy Tin-Yan Lee +2
Background: Ultrasound (US) imaging for scoliosis assessment is challenging for a non-experienced operator. The robotic scanning was developed to follow a spinal curvature with dee…
eess.IV2020
Bone Feature Segmentation in Ultrasound Spine Image with Robustness to Speckle and Regular Occlusion Noise
Zixun Huang, Li-Wen Wang, Frank H. F. Leung +6
3D ultrasound imaging shows great promise for scoliosis diagnosis thanks to its low-costing, radiation-free and real-time characteristics. The key to accessing scoliosis by ultraso…