Cobb Angle Measurement Decision Support System of Radiography Images in Patients with Idiopathic Scoliosis

Abstract

Background: The use of telemedicine has received considerable attention in recent decades and it has partaken different applications such as teleradiology, telepathology, remote surgery, and so on. Telemedicine has been an approach with broad publications and a technology adopted by broad categories of healthcare users. The use of new technologies at each stage of teleradiology creates new challenges. Like any system, the lifecycle of the system development from production to maintenance requires actions to take. Methods: Based on the PRISMA checklist, a robust search strategy was developed to identify all available studies meeting the inclusion and exclusion criteria. A literature search was conducted in March 2018 for a week for searching in PubMed/ MEDLINE, Scopus, and Web of Science. We excluded articles published before 2000, non-English articles, all kinds of reviews, conference papers without full texts, notes and news, books, letters to editors, gray literature, authors' opinion, educational materials, and ad hoc implementation in the technical scope. All full-text literature in English concerning the assessment, evaluation, patient outcome, economics, and managerial aspects with a local or wide implementation in the form of original articles and case studies were included in this review. Then, data were imported into an Excel file. Results: The articles were published between January 2000 and October 2018. A full, deep review revealed that most articles were related to the hospital environment. The financial evaluations comprised cost-effectiveness, cost prediction, initial cost reduction, and plummeting transporta-

Development of a CapsNet and Fuzzy Logic Decision Support System for Diagnosing the Scoliosis and Planning Treatments via Schroth Method

“…When the literature is examined, it is seen that there are different studies in terms of diagnosing the scoliosis. Some of these studies are based on using traditional Machine Learning techniques or some computational algorithms [24][25][26][27][28][29][53][54][55].…”

“…As related to the scoliosis, such a system will be a nice tool to help both physiotherapists and patients in terms of appropriate diagnosis and treatment steps. In the literature, there is a recent interest to research decision support for scoliosis cases [24][25][26]. It is clear that developing software systems in decision support is a good opportunity for real-use cases.…”