The state-of-the-art in ultrasound-guided spine interventions

HE Gueziri, C Santaguida, DL Collins - Medical Image Analysis, 2020 - Elsevier
During the last two decades, intra-operative ultrasound (iUS) imaging has been employed
for various surgical procedures of the spine, including spinal fusion and needle injections …

Registration of 3D freehand ultrasound to a bone model for orthopedic procedures of the forearm

M Ciganovic, F Ozdemir, F Pean, P Fuernstahl… - International journal of …, 2018 - Springer
Purpose For guidance of orthopedic surgery, the registration of preoperative images and
corresponding surgical plans with the surgical setting can be of great value. Ultrasound (US) …

Ultrasound-based navigated pedicle screw insertion without intraoperative radiation: feasibility study on porcine cadavers

HE Gueziri, M Georgiopoulos, C Santaguida… - The Spine Journal, 2022 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND Navigation systems for spinal fusion surgery rely on intraoperative
computed tomography (CT) or fluoroscopy imaging. Both expose patient, surgeons and …

Real-time, image-based slice-to-volume registration for ultrasound-guided spinal intervention

T De Silva, A Uneri, X Zhang, M Ketcha… - Physics in Medicine …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Real-time fusion of magnetic resonance (MR) and ultrasound (US) images could facilitate
safe and accurate needle placement in spinal interventions. We develop an entirely image …

Visual aid for identifying vertebral landmarks in ultrasound

Z Baum, T Ungi, A Lasso, B Church… - Medical Imaging …, 2018 - spiedigitallibrary.org
PURPOSE: Vertebral landmark identification with ultrasound is notoriously difficult. We
propose to assist the user in identifying vertebral landmarks by overlaying a visual aid in the …

Interventional imaging: Ultrasound

I Hacihaliloglu, ECS Chen, P Mousavi… - Handbook of Medical …, 2020 - Elsevier
Due to its real-time, safe, and two-dimensional (2D)/three-dimensional (3D) imaging
capabilities, ultrasound has been incorporated as an imaging modality into various surgical …

Spinal pain relief procedures with the assistance of the MRI‐updated statistical shape model

S Alimohamadi Gilakjan, H Majedi… - … Journal of Medical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Background Updating the statistical shape model (SSM) used in image guidance systems
for the treatment of back pain using pre‐op computed tomography (CT) and intra‐op …

End-to-end vertebra localization and level detection in weakly labelled 3d spinal mr using cascaded neural networks

T van Sonsbeek, P Danaei, D Behnami… - 2019 IEEE 16th …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Localization and identification of vertebrae in 3D MR volumes is a crucial first step for
diagnosis and management of spinal conditions. Automating this process can save …

Automated lumbar vertebral level identification using ultrasound

JH Hetherington - 2017 - open.library.ubc.ca
Spinal needle procedures require identification of the vertebral level for effectiveness and
safety. Eg in obstetric epidurals, the preferred target is between the third and fourth lumbar …

Automatic localization and labelling of spine vertebrae in MR images using deep learning

P Danaei - 2020 - open.library.ubc.ca
Abstract Magnetic Resonance (MR) and Computed Topography (CT) are the most common
modalities for spine imaging. Localization and identification of vertebrae is an essential first …