The paper introduces a method for detecting spine landmarks in X-ray images by treating landmark detection as a pixel-level contrastive representation learning task. Using a generic U‑Net backbone, the approach generates more discriminative heatmaps than traditional heatmap regression, enabling better differentiation between vertebral corners. The method further incorporates learnable shape priors to resolve location ambiguities, achieving competitive accuracy on the AASCE dataset and two private datasets.
arXiv:2609.16033v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Cervical vertebral maturation (CVM) assessment plays a pivotal role in orthodontic diagnosis and determining the optimal timing of treatment, especia...
arXiv:2608. 09182v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Accurate landmark localization in medical images is a fundamental step for quantitative clinical measurement and downstream analysis.
arXiv:2610.07726v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Videofluoroscopic Swallowing Study (VFSS) is one of the gold standard for diagnosing swallowing disorders, providing dynamic X-ray imaging of the swall...
SpineContextResUNet is a lightweight 3D Residual U‑Net that uses a Context Block with parallel multi‑dilated convolutions to efficiently capture long‑range anatomical dependencies for spine CT segmentation. It achieves Dice scores of 88.17% on VerSe2020 and 88.13% on CTSpine1K while maintaining a small ~1.7 M parameter footprint. Compared to resource‑heavy Transformers and baselines that fail on commodity hardware, SpineContextResUNet delivers robust inference on edge devices such as the Nvidia Jetson Orin Nano.
arXiv:2609.28434v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis is defined as a lateral curvature of the spine that develops during adolescence, without known cause. The condition can...
arXiv:2606. 15250v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Radiographic assessment of lower-limb alignment (LLA) is important for predicting joint health and surgical outcomes in total knee arthroplasty.
Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis is defined as a lateral curvature of the spine that develops during adolescence, without known cause. The condition can result in significant pain and disability, and o...
arXiv:2601. 15235v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Cervical spine fractures require rapid and accurate diagnosis, yet automatic CT interpretation remains challenging as subtle injuries must be assessed across large 3D volumes.
arXiv:2607. 10551v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Accurate geometric calibration is essential for fluoroscopy-guided spinal imaging, digitally reconstructed radiograph (DRR) generation, and 2D--3D vertebral registration.
arXiv:2608. 00187v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Correspondence-based statistical shape modeling (SSM) is vital for population-level morphometric analysis, but conventional pipelines assume clean, fully registered surfaces.
arXiv:2610.37134v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is routinely used to diagnose spinal disorders, but surgical planning often requires Computed Tomography (CT) for be...
arXiv:2607. 23343v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Intraoperative 2D/3D registration aligns preoperative CT volumes with intraoperative X-ray or fluoroscopic images and is essential for image-guided interventions.