Author(s): Sim M; Gebre AK; Dalla Via J; Reid S; Jozani MJ; Kimelman D; Monchka BA; Gilani SZ; Ilyas Z; Smith C; Suter D; Schousboe JT; Lewis JR; Leslie WD;

Abdominal aortic calcification (AAC), a subclinical measure of cardiovascular disease (CVD) that can be assessed on vertebral fracture assessment (VFA) images during osteoporosis screening, is reported to be a falls risk factor. A limitation to incorporating AAC clinically is that its scoring req ...

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Author(s): Smith C; Sim M; Ilyas Z; Gilani SZ; Suter D; Reid S; Monchka BA; Jozani MJ; Figtree G; Schousboe JT; Lewis JR; Leslie WD;

Vertebral fracture assessment (VFA) images from bone density machines enable the automated machine learning assessment of abdominal aortic calcification (ML-AAC), a marker of cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk. The objective of this study was to describe the risk of a major adverse cardiovascular ...

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Author(s): Schousboe JT; Lewis JR; Monchka BA; Reid SB; Davidson MJ; Kimelman D; Jozani MJ; Smith C; Sim M; Gilani SZ; Suter D; Leslie WD;

Whether simultaneous automated ascertainments of prevalent vertebral fracture (auto-PVFx) and abdominal aortic calcification (auto-AAC) on vertebral fracture assessment (VFA) lateral spine bone density (BMD) images jointly predict incident fractures in routine clinical practice is unclear. We est ...

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Author(s): Matinfar S; Salehi M; Suter D; Seibold M; Dehghani S; Navab N; Wanivenhaus F; Fürnstahl P; Farshad M; Navab N;

Despite the undeniable advantages of image-guided surgical assistance systems in terms of accuracy, such systems have not yet fully met surgeons' needs or expectations regarding usability, time efficiency, and their integration into the surgical workflow. On the other hand, perceptual studies ...

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