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A new sensing paradigm for the vibroacoustic detection of pedicle screw loosening

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  • معلومة اضافية
    • الموضوع:
      2022
    • Collection:
      Physics (Other)
    • نبذة مختصرة :
      There is an unmet clinical need for developing novel methods to complement and replace the current radiation-emitting imaging-based methods for the detection of loose pedicle screws as a complication after spinal fusion surgery which fail to identify a substantial amount of loose implants. In this work, we propose a new methodology and paradigm for the radiation-free, non-destructive, and easy-to-integrate detection of pedicle screw loosening based on vibroacoustic sensing. Furthermore, we propose a novel simulation technique for pedicle screw loosening, which is biomechanically validated. For the detection of a loose implant, we excite the vertebra of interest with a sine sweep vibration at the spinous process and attach a custom highly-sensitive piezo contact microphone to the screw head to capture the propagated vibration characteristics which are analyzed using a detection pipeline based on spectrogram features and a SE-ResNet-18. To validate the proposed approach, we conducted experiments using four human cadaveric lumbar spine specimens and evaluate our algorithm in a cross validation experiment. Our method reaches a sensitivity of 91.50 +- 6.58% and a specificity of 91.10 +- 2.27%. The proposed system shows great potentials for the development of alternative assessment methods for implant loosening based on vibroacoustic sensing.
    • الرقم المعرف:
      10.1007/s11517-024-03235-4
    • الرقم المعرف:
      edsarx.2210.16170