An Optimization-based Baseline for Rigid 2D/3D Registration Applied to Spine Surgical Navigation Using CMA-ES

no code implementations • 8 Feb 2024 • Minheng Chen, Tonglong Li, Zhirun Zhang, Youyong Kong

While artificial intelligence technology has advanced rapidly in recent years, traditional optimization-based registration methods remain indispensable in the field of 2D/3D registration. he exceptional precision of this method enables it to be considered as a post-processing step of the learning-based methods, thereby offering a reliable assurance for registration.

SpineCLUE: Automatic Vertebrae Identification Using Contrastive Learning and Uncertainty Estimation

no code implementations • 14 Jan 2024 • Sheng Zhang, Minheng Chen, Junxian Wu, Ziyue Zhang, Tonglong Li, Cheng Xue, Youyong Kong

In this paper, we propose a three-stage method to address the challenges in 3D CT vertebrae identification at vertebrae-level.

Contrastive Learning