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Clinical Efficacy of Ultrasound-Assisted Scoliosis-Specific Exercise in Mild-Grade Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis
Published on: December 2, 2025
SCOLIOSIS SCREENING AND MONITORING USING SELF CONTAINED ULTRASOUND AND NEURAL NETWORKS
Hastings Greer1, Sam Gerber1, Marc Niethammer2
1Kitware Inc, Carrboro NC 27510, USA.
Abstract:
We aim to diagnose scoliosis using a self contained ultrasound device that does not require significant training to operate. The device knows its angle relative to vertical using an embedded inertial measurement unit, and it estimates its angle relative to a vertebrae using a neural network analysis of its ultrasound images. The composition of those angles defines the angle of a vertebrae from vertical. The maximum difference between vertebrae angles collected from a scan of a spine yields the Cobb angle measure that is used to quantify scoliosis severity.
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