Basing on the visibility of research achievements in the field of processing and analysis of medical spine images, the project leader Tomaž Vrtovec became a member of the organization committee of this international workshop. The workshop proceedings were published as a volume in the series Lecture Notes in Computer Science, published by Springer.
C.01 Editorial board of a foreign/international collection of papers/book
COBISS.SI-ID: 11452756Project leader Tomaž Vrtovec has, basing on the research achievements of the project group, retained the position of Associate Editor for two international journals, namely Image Analysis & Stereology (journal with an impact factor, COBISS-ID 106479104) in Journal of Medical Imaging (journal with a directed strategy, COBISS-ID 11064916), which is of high socioeconomic importance for the project group.
C.06 Editorial board membership
Within the project we developed a novel method for automated planning of the pedicle screw size and insertion trajectory. The method removes / replaces the need for manual preoperative planning, which is time-consuming, technologically demanding (visualization, navigation and manipulation of 3D spine images), affected by the subjective interpretation of the observer (usually the surgeon that will perform the surgery) and with a steep learning curve. As such, the method has a marketing potential as a stand-alone application or a part of a general surgery planning software. This potential will be researched and evaluated in further project development.
F.21 Development of new health/diagnostic methods/procedures