Towards clinical applicability and computational efficiency in automatic cranial implant design: An overview of the autoimplant 2021 cranial implant design challenge

J Li, DG Ellis, O Kodym, L Rauschenbach, C Rieß… - Medical Image …, 2023 - Elsevier
Cranial implants are commonly used for surgical repair of craniectomy-induced skull defects.
These implants are usually generated offline and may require days to weeks to be available …

Point cloud diffusion models for automatic implant generation

P Friedrich, J Wolleb, F Bieder, FM Thieringer… - … Conference on Medical …, 2023 - Springer
Advances in 3D printing of biocompatible materials make patient-specific implants
increasingly popular. The design of these implants is, however, still a tedious and largely …

3D surgical instrument collection for computer vision and extended reality

G Luijten, C Gsaxner, J Li, A Pepe, N Ambigapathy… - Scientific Data, 2023 - nature.com
The availability of computational hardware and developments in (medical) machine learning
(MML) increases medical mixed realities'(MMR) clinical usability. Medical instruments have …

Sparse convolutional neural network for high-resolution skull shape completion and shape super-resolution

J Li, C Gsaxner, A Pepe, D Schmalstieg, J Kleesiek… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Traditional convolutional neural network (CNN) methods rely on dense tensors, which
makes them suboptimal for spatially sparse data. In this paper, we propose a CNN model …

[HTML][HTML] Deep learning-based framework for automatic cranial defect reconstruction and implant modeling

M Wodzinski, M Daniol, M Socha, D Hemmerling… - Computer methods and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Background and Objective: This article presents a robust, fast, and fully automatic
method for personalized cranial defect reconstruction and implant modeling. Methods: We …

High-resolution cranial defect reconstruction by iterative, low-resolution, point cloud completion transformers

M Wodzinski, M Daniol, D Hemmerling… - … Conference on Medical …, 2023 - Springer
Each year thousands of people suffer from various types of cranial injuries and require
personalized implants whose manual design is expensive and time-consuming. Therefore …

Back to the roots: Reconstructing large and complex cranial defects using an image-based statistical shape model

J Li, DG Ellis, A Pepe, C Gsaxner… - Journal of Medical …, 2024 - Springer
Designing implants for large and complex cranial defects is a challenging task, even for
professional designers. Current efforts on automating the design process focused mainly on …

Automatic Implant Generation for Cranioplasty via Occupancy Networks

S Mazzocchetti, M Bevini, G Badiali, G Lisanti… - IEEE …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The design of patient-specific implants for cranioplasty surgery is time-consuming and
challenging. Hence, the 2021 AutoImplant II challenge, consisting of the SkullBreak and …

Automatic Cranial Defect Reconstruction with Self-Supervised Deep Deformable Masked Autoencoders

M Wodzinski, D Hemmerling, M Daniol - arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.13106, 2024 - arxiv.org
Thousands of people suffer from cranial injuries every year. They require personalized
implants that need to be designed and manufactured before the reconstruction surgery. The …

Unsupervised Skull Segmentation via Contrastive MR-to-CT Modality Translation

K Kwarciak, M Daniol, D Hemmerling… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - openaccess.thecvf.com
The skull segmentation from CT scans can be seen as an already solved problem. However,
in MR this task has a significantly greater complexity due to the presence of soft tissues …