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ArticleEuropean spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society2025

Validity of a fast automated 3d spine reconstruction measurements for biplanar radiographs: SOSORT 2024 award winner.

Weiying Chen, Mahdieh Khodaei, Marek Reformat, Edmond Lou

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Weiying ChenDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alberta, Donadeo ICE 11-263, 9211-116 Street NW, Edmonton, AB, T6G 1H9, Canada.ORCID 0009-0007-9212-0745
Mahdieh KhodaeiDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alberta, Donadeo ICE 11-263, 9211-116 Street NW, Edmonton, AB, T6G 1H9, Canada.ORCID 0000-0003-2563-8636
Marek ReformatDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alberta, Donadeo ICE 11-263, 9211-116 Street NW, Edmonton, AB, T6G 1H9, Canada.ORCID 0000-0003-4783-0717
Edmond LouDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alberta, Donadeo ICE 11-263, 9211-116 Street NW, Edmonton, AB, T6G 1H9, Canada. elou@ualberta.ca.ORCID 0000-0002-7531-8377

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Alberta Innovates RES0060509NSERC RES0048642Women and Children's Health Research Institute RES0050278
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Abstract

purposeTo validate a fast 3D biplanar spinal radiograph reconstruction method with automatic extract curvature parameters using artificial intelligence (AI).

methodsThree-hundred eighty paired, posteroanterior and lateral, radiographs from the EOS X-ray system of children with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis were randomly selected from the database. For the AI model development, 304 paired images were used for training; 76 pairs were employed for testing. The validation was evaluated by comparing curvature parameters, including Cobb angles (CA), apical axial vertebral rotation (AVR), kyphotic angle (T1-T12 KA), and lordotic angle (L1-L5 LA), to manual measurements from a rater with 8 years of scoliosis experience. The mean absolute differences ± standard deviation (MAD ± SD), the percentage of measurements within the clinically acceptable errors, the standard error of measurement (SEM), and the inter-method intraclass correlation coefficient ICC

resultsAmong the 76 test images, 134 and 128 CA were exported automatically and measured manually, respectively. The MAD ± SD for CA, AVR at apex, KA, and LA were 3.3° ± 3.5°, 1.5° ± 1.5°, 3.3° ± 2.6° and 3.5° ± 2.5°, respectively, and 98% of these measurements were within the clinical acceptance errors. The SEMs and the ICC

conclusionThe developed AI algorithm could reconstruct a 3D scoliotic spine within 6 s, and the automatic curvature parameters were accurately and reliably extracted from the reconstructed images.

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Imaging, Three-DimensionalRadiographyScoliosisSpineAdolescentArtificial IntelligenceAwards and PrizesChildFemaleHumansMale3D spinal reconstructionAdolescent idiopathic scoliosisArtificial intelligenceCurvature parameters

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