Computer-Aided System for New Therapy and Diagnosis for Scoliosis Using Real-time Stress Estimation

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26560262
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Medical systems
• Research Institution: Kyushu University
• Principal Investigator: Morooka Ken'ichi 九州大学, システム情報科学研究科(研究院, 准教授 (80323806)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): KUBOTA Kensuke 九州大学, 大学院病院, 助教 (00717069) ; KURAZUME Ryo 九州大学, 大学院システム情報科学研究院, 教授 (70272672) ; TSUJI Tokuo 九州大学, 大学院システム情報科学研究院, 助教 (30403588) ; IWASHITA Yumi 九州大学, 大学院システム情報科学研究院, 助教 (70467877)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 実時間有限解析 / 側彎症 / 低品質医用画像

Outline of Final Research Achievements

We have been studying a new therapy and diagnosis for scoliosis based on the observation and analysis of the motion of spine during breathing. The purpose of our research is to construct a computer aided system for the new therapy and diagnosis for scoliosis by a real-time finite element analysis. To achieve this, we have done research about two fundamental techniques: 1) the development of a real-time finite element analysis by using deep neural networks, and 2)the reconstruction of a patient-specific spine shapes from low resolution medial images with much noise.

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