Developing a Computer Vision Model to Automate Quantitative Measurement of Hip-Knee-Ankle Angle in Total Hip and Knee Arthroplasty Patients

Increasing deformity of the lower extremities, as measured by the Hip-Knee-Ankle Angle (HKAA), is associated with poor patient outcomes after total hip and knee arthroplasty (THA, TKA). Automated calculation of HKAA is imperative to reduce the burden on orthopaedic surgeons. We proposed a detection-based deep learning (DL) model to calculate HKAA in THA and TKA patients and assessed the agreement between DL-derived HKAAs and manual measurement.

Source: The Journal of Arthroplasty - April 26, 2024 Category: Orthopaedics Authors: Irene L. Tanner, Ken Ye, Miles S. Moore, Albert Rechenmacher, Michelle M. Ramirez, Steven Z. George, Michael P. Bolognesi, Maggie E. Horn Source Type: research