Quantitative MRI for evaluation of musculoskeletal disease: cartilage and muscle composition, joint inflammation, and biomechanics in osteoarthritis

BL Eck, M Yang, JJ Elias, CS Winalski… - Investigative …, 2023 - journals.lww.com
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a valuable tool for evaluating musculoskeletal disease
as it offers a range of image contrasts that are sensitive to underlying tissue biochemical …

Machine-learning models reliably predict clinical outcomes in medial patellofemoral ligament reconstruction

H Zhan, X Kang, X Zhang, Y Zhang, Y Wang… - … : The Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Purpose To develop a machine-learning model to predict clinical outcomes after medial
patellofemoral ligament reconstruction (MPFLR) and identify the important predictive …

Age, body mass index, female gender, and patellofemoral cartilage degeneration predict worse patient outcome after patellofemoral instability surgery

N Žlak, A Kacin, D Martinčič, M Drobnič - Knee Surgery, Sports …, 2022 - Springer
Purpose To evaluate predicting factors for patient-reported outcomes and revision
interventions following surgical treatment of patients with patellofemoral instability. Methods …

Automatic quadriceps and patellae segmentation of MRI with cascaded U2‐Net and SASSNet deep learning model

R Cheng, M Crouzier, F Hug, K Tucker… - Medical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose Automatic muscle segmentation is critical for advancing our understanding of
human physiology, biomechanics, and musculoskeletal pathologies, as it allows for timely …

The influence of mathematical definitions on patellar kinematics representations

A Sauer, M Kebbach, A Maas, WM Mihalko, TM Grupp - Materials, 2021 - mdpi.com
A correlation between patellar kinematics and anterior knee pain is widely accepted.
However, there is no consensus on how they are connected or what profile of patellar …

[HTML][HTML] Exploring healthy knee kinematic phenotypes obtained through dynamic CT imaging: A cluster analysis study

EHS Teule, SAW van de Groes, G Hannink… - Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Dynamic Computed Tomography (CT) emerges as a pivotal imaging modality for
the assessment of knee joint kinematics. However, integrating dynamic CT into clinical …

Using bilateral data in controls and patients with bilateral and unilateral pathology requires increased scrutiny

ND Camarillo, R Jiménez-Silva, FT Sheehan - Journal of Biomechanics, 2024 - Elsevier
In many aspects of human research, capturing multiple measures from the same participant
is common due to the symmetric nature of the human body (eg, two eyes, ten fingers, two …

Neuromechanical properties of the vastus medialis and vastus lateralis in adolescents with patellofemoral pain

M Crouzier, F Hug, FT Sheehan… - … Journal of Sports …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Background: An alteration in the force distribution among quadriceps heads is one possible
underlying mechanism of patellofemoral pain. However, this hypothesis cannot be directly …

Efficacy of tissue-bone homeostasis manipulation on the gait and knee function for the patients with knee osteoarthritis: a randomized controlled trial

Z Zhang, Y Ding, Y Tao, H Xu, Y Zhong, K Yang… - BMC Musculoskeletal …, 2024 - Springer
Knee osteoarthritis (KOA) was characterized by pain and limited joint function, which
seriously affected the quality of life of patients. The vast majority of KOA was closely related …

Effect of change in patellofemoral joint contact area by the decrease in vastus medialis muscle activation on joint stress

T Tomoya, E Mutsuaki, I Takuma… - Acta of Bioengineering …, 2023 - sciendo.com
Purpose: Patellofemoral pain syndrome is a common orthopedic trauma among runners. It is
unclear whether patellofemoral joint stress (PFJS) is the highest (or lowest) when the knee …