无需标记骨骼点,直接从膝关节X光片预测下肢对线,速度快且可拓展。
Landmark-free Assessment of Lower-limb Alignment with Implicit Neural Shape Functions from Knee Radiographs

- 用隐式神经形状函数编码骨骼结构,直接回归对线指标
- 内部数据566张、外部402张测试,精度接近人工与顶尖方法
- 不依赖固定标志点,适合临床定义变更时快速迁移
下肢对线(LLA)的影像评估对预测关节健康和全膝关节置换术效果至关重要。传统方法依赖人工测量,耗时费力;现有机器学习方法通常需定位一组固定解剖标志点,限制了灵活性,临床定义变化时需重新标注。为此,我们提出一种基于隐式神经形状函数(INSF)的自动化流程。该方法不依赖显式标志点坐标,而是将解剖结构编码至紧凑的潜在空间,并直接从这些潜在代码回归临床对线指标。该架构支持快速扩展至新任务而无需修改主干表示。我们在包含566张膝关节X光片的内部数据集上训练模型,每张图像均标注了股骨和胫骨轮廓。在50例内部测试数据及来自MRKR数据集的402例术前病例上进行评估,人工临床测量结果可用,且MRKR测量数据将公开。性能与当前最优地标方法及人工一致性相当,同时提供可灵活扩展的形状表征。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Radiographic assessment of lower-limb alignment (LLA) is important for predicting joint health and surgical outcomes in total knee arthroplasty. Traditional measurement methods are manual and time-consuming, while recent machine learning approaches typically rely on locating a fixed set of anatomical landmarks. This dependence limits flexibility and may require re-annotation when clinical definitions change. To address this, we propose an automated workflow using Implicit Neural Shape Functions (INSF). Rather than relying on explicit landmark coordinates, we encode the anatomy into a compact latent space and regress clinical alignment measurements directly from these latent codes. This architecture allows for rapid extendability to new tasks without altering the backbone representation. We trained our method on an internal dataset of 566 knee radiographs, each annotated with the outline of the femur and tibia. We evaluated it on both an internal test dataset of 50 patients and a separate external set of 402 preoperative cases from the MRKR dataset. Manual clinical measurements are available for these data, and the MRKR measurements will be made publicly accessible. Performance was comparable to state-of-the-art landmark-based methods and manual agreement, while offering a flexible shape representation that can be extended to additional measurement tasks.
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