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New AI method assesses lower-limb alignment without landmarks

Researchers have developed a new method for assessing lower-limb alignment from knee radiographs using Implicit Neural Shape Functions (INSF). This approach avoids the need for explicit anatomical landmark identification, instead encoding anatomical shapes into a latent space to directly predict alignment measurements. The INSF method was trained on a dataset of 566 knee radiographs and evaluated on both internal and external datasets, showing performance comparable to existing landmark-based techniques. AI

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Zhisen Hu, Antti Kemppainen, David Johnson, Egor Panfilov, Huy Hoang Nguyen, Timothy Cootes, Claudia Lindner, Aleksei Tiulpin ·

    Landmark-free Assessment of Lower-limb Alignment with Implicit Neural Shape Functions from Knee Radiographs

    arXiv:2606.15250v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: 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 l…