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Hellena Hempe, Alexander Bigalke and Mattias Paul Heinrich
Background: Degenerative spinal pathologies are highly prevalent among the elderly population. Timely diagnosis of osteoporotic fractures and other degenerative deformities enables proactive measures to mitigate the risk of severe back pain and disabilit...
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Ana Teresa Gabriel, Cláudia Quaresma and Pedro Vieira
Back pain is regularly associated with biomechanical changes in the spine. The traditional methods to assess spine biomechanics use ionising radiation. Vertebral Metrics (VM) is a non-invasive instrument developed by the authors in previous research that...
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Sergey S. Yurochka, Igor M. Dovlatov, Dmitriy Y. Pavkin, Vladimir A. Panchenko, Aleksandr A. Smirnov, Yuri A. Proshkin and Igor Yudaev
The global recent development trend in dairy farming emphasizes the automation and robotization of milk production. The rapid development rate of dairy farming requires new technologies to increase the economic efficiency and improve production. The rese...
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Florian Göttfert, Johanna Herzog, Christian Maurer-Grubinger, Gerhard Oremek, Fabian Holzgreve, David A. Groneberg and Daniela Ohlendorf
Introduction: An altered dental occlusion can also affect balance stability or mobility. Thus, the aim of this study was to examine whether wearing a mandibular splint, which retains the occlusion close to the centric occlusion, can increase or decrease ...
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Ming-Kai Hsieh, Wen-Jer Chen, Mel S. Lee, Sheng-Yu Lin, Mu-Yi Liu, De-Mei Lee and Ching-Lung Tai
Unacceptable sagittal alignment and cement leakage are major concerns of percutaneous vertebroplasty when treating patients with painful vertebral osteoporotic compression fractures. To maintain the restored vertebral height and reduce the reliance on ce...
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Woo-Suck Han, Jérôme Molimard, Baptiste Pierrat, Romain Pannetier and Reynald Convert
A comparative study of eight different lumbar belts, which are representative of the French market, was carried out on four typical morphologies of patients to assess their therapeutic effects and identify the correlation between the therapeutic paramete...
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Ming-Kai Hsieh, Yun-Da Li, Yun-Ja Hsu, Tsung-Ting Tsai, Po-Liang Lai, De-Mei Lee and Ching-Lung Tai
Replacement with larger diameter screws is always used in pedicle screw loosening but carries a risk of pedicle wall violation. A pedicle screw with more preserved bone stock is the preferred primary fixation choice. The purpose of this study was to eval...
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Shoou-Jeng Joung, Zhi-Yu Hsu, Kuan-Yu Su and Kwang-Ming Liu
The age and growth of the spot-tail shark, Carcharhinus sorrah, were estimated based on 327 specimens (171 females and 156 males) captured by the coastal/offshore longline or drift net fishery in the waters of the Taiwan Strait from October 2010 to Decem...
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Eun-Sang Moon, Seora Kim, Nathan Kim, Minjoung Jang, Toru Deguchi, Fengyuan Zheng, Damian J. Lee and Do-Gyoon Kim
Osteoporosis reduces bone mineral density (BMD) with aging. The incidence of cervical vertebral injuries for the elderly has increased in the last decade. Thus, the objective of the current study was to examine whether dental cone beam computed tomograph...
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Nicola Altini, Giuseppe De Giosa, Nicola Fragasso, Claudia Coscia, Elena Sibilano, Berardino Prencipe, Sardar Mehboob Hussain, Antonio Brunetti, Domenico Buongiorno, Andrea Guerriero, Ilaria Sabina Tatò, Gioacchino Brunetti, Vito Triggiani and Vitoantonio Bevilacqua
The accurate segmentation and identification of vertebrae presents the foundations for spine analysis including fractures, malfunctions and other visual insights. The large-scale vertebrae segmentation challenge (VerSe), organized as a competition at the...
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