The reconstruction of the nipple–areola complex is the last step in the breast reconstruction process. Several techniques have been described over the years. The aim of this review is to provide clarity on the currently available reconstructive...
Background/Objectives: The rising incidence of breast cancer has led to more mastectomies and increased demand for reconstruction. While retropectoral reconstruction with expanders is common, it has complications like postoperative pain and animation...
Poorly contoured mandibular reconstruction plates are associated with postoperative complications. Recently, a technique emerged whereby preoperative patient-specific reconstructive plates (PSRP) are developed in the hopes of eliminating errors in th...
Three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction has become a fundamental technology in applications ranging from cultural heritage preservation and robotics to forensics and virtual reality. As these applications grow in complexity and realism, the quality of...
Pulsed illumination of a sample, e.g., of a biological tissue, causes a sudden temperature increase of light absorbing structures, such as blood vessels, which results in an outgoing acoustic wave, as well as heat diffusion, of the absorbed energy. B...
Breast reconstruction surgery is continualladvancing, significantly enhancing patient well-being. Current surgical techniques prioritize minimizing donor site morbidity while achieving a more natural breast appearance. Increasing patient preferences...
21 December 2018
Since 2005, facial transplantation has emerged as a viable reconstructive option for the most severe defects not amenable to conventional reconstructive techniques, with promising aesthetic and functional outcomes to date. Key facial subunits and mid...
Image-based 3D reconstruction enables laparoscopic applications as image-guided navigation and (autonomous) robot-assisted interventions, which require a high accuracy. The review’s purpose is to present the accuracy of different techniques to...
Objective: To compare the clinical prognosis of metal endoprosthetic reconstruction versus biological reconstruction in the treatment of limb osteosarcoma and to analyze associated prognostic factors. Methods: From October 2014 to October 2021, a ret...
Plant 3D reconstruction plays a critical role in precision agriculture and plant growth monitoring, yet it faces challenges such as complex background interference, difficulties in capturing intricate plant structures, and a slow reconstruction speed...
25 February 2014
We investigated the workflow of computer-assistedmandibular reconstruction that was performed with a patient-specific mandibular reconstruction plate fabricated with computer-aided design and computer-aided manufacturing (CAD/CAM) techniques and a fi...
Implant-based breast reconstruction (IBBR) is the most frequently performed procedure for breast reconstruction following mastectomy, which involves the surgical placement of breast implants. The approach to breast reconstruction can be divided into...
In this paper, we propose an active robotic 3D reconstruction methodology for achieving full object 3D reconstruction. Existing robotic 3D reconstruction approaches often struggle to cover the entire view space of the object or reconstruct occluded r...
29 March 2019
Primary restoration of the mandibular continuity remains the standard of care for defects, and yet several constraints preclude this objective. Interim reconstructions with plate and nonvascular bone grafts have high failure rates. The secondary reco...
Background and objectives: This study aimed to determine if age, race, region, insurance, and comorbidities affect the type of breast reconstruction that patients receive. Materials and methods: This analysis used the Florida Inpatient Discharge Data...
A spectral inverse problem concerns the reconstruction of parameters of a parent graph from prescribed spectral data of subgraphs. Also referred to as the P–NP Isomorphism Problem, Reconstruction or Exact Graph Matching, the aim is to seek sets of pa...
Hybrid breast reconstruction (HBR) combines autologous tissue and bio-prosthetic breast reconstruction techniques. This method addresses many challenges associated with stand-alone techniques, including inadequate volume with autologous reconstructio...
Semantic scene reconstruction from sparse and incomplete point clouds is a vital task in understanding point scenes. This task involves assigning semantic labels to objects and reconstructing their complete shapes as meshes. In recent years, research...
Background/Objectives: Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women worldwide. Surgical treatments include breast-conserving therapy (BCT) and mastectomy, often followed by reconstruction, but the impact of reconstruction on locoregional recur...
Background: Breast cancer continues to be a significant diagnostic and therapeutic problem. Mastectomy is still a frequently used treatment method, but its form is changing with progress in medicine. Methods: We have described important types of surg...
Fournier’s gangrene (FG) is a rare form of necrotizing fasciitis of the perineal, genital, or perianal region. It is characterized by an aggressive course and high mortality rate, over 20%. FG demands immediate treatment including resuscitation...
Background and Objectives: Lipofilling is a commonly performed procedure worldwide for breast augmentation and correction of breast contour deformities. In breast reconstruction, fat grafting has been used as a single reconstructive technique, as wel...
5 June 2012
The fibular free flap is the gold standard for mandibular reconstruction. Accurate 3-dimensional contouring and precise alignment of the fibula is critical for reestablishing native occlusion and facial symmetry. Following segmental mandibulectomy, t...
22 May 2017
Reconstruction of the head and neck can be a challenging undertaking owing to numerous considerations for successful rehabilitation. Although head and neck defects were once considered irretrievably morbid and associated with a poor quality of life,...
Decoding human brain activities, especially reconstructing human visual stimuli via functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), has gained increasing attention in recent years. However, the high dimensionality and small quantity of fMRI data impose...
This research presented a mathematical-based approach to the computational reconstruction of the human nose through images with anthropometric characteristics. The nasal baselines, which were generated from facial aesthetic subunits combined with the...
As data acquisition technology continues to advance, the improvement and upgrade of the algorithms for surface reconstruction are required. In this paper, we utilized multiple terrestrial Light Detection And Ranging (Lidar) systems to acquire point c...
With the rapid development of 3D reconstruction, especially the emergence of algorithms such as NeRF and 3DGS, 3D reconstruction has become a popular research topic in recent years. 3D reconstruction technology provides crucial support for training e...
Background and Objectives: Breast cancer in patients with prior breast augmentation poses unique challenges for detection, diagnosis, and management. Mastectomy rates are increasing, and patients with prior augmentation often have a lower body mass i...
In this paper, we consider the problem of feature reconstruction from incomplete X-ray CT data. Such incomplete data problems occur when the number of measured X-rays is restricted either due to limit radiation exposure or due to practical constraint...
A new information theoretic condition is presented for reconstructing a discrete random variable X based on the knowledge of a set of discrete functions of X. The reconstruction condition is derived from Shannon’s 1953 lattice theory with two e...
Objectives: This study aimed to perform matched comparisons of the surgical outcomes of combined anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) and anterolateral ligament (ALL) reconstruction with those of isolated ACL reconstruction, in which allografts were used...
9 July 2020
Study Design: This study presents a case-control study of 33 patients who underwent secondary orbital reconstruction, evaluating techniques and outcome. Objective: Adequate functional and aesthetical appearance are main goals for secondary orbital re...
We have adapted, implemented and trained the Learned Primal Dual algorithm suggested by Adler and Öktem and evaluated its performance in reconstructing projection data from our PET scanner. Learned Primal Dual reconstructions are compared to Max...
This article describes the design of the reconstruction of the mechanical and technological equipment of the settling tanks at the wastewater treatment plant in the municipality of Boskovice. The reconstruction was focused on the flocculation cylinde...
Breast reconstruction is an integral part of breast cancer treatment and offers significant psychosocial benefits for patients undergoing mastectomy as a part of their treatment plan. Autologous breast reconstruction (ABR) utilizes a patient’s...
This study utilizes the inverse finite element method (iFEM) to investigate the strain field reconstruction of ship stiffened plates under multiple loading conditions. The aim is to enhance the monitoring, safety, and reliability of ship structures t...
Ultrasound imaging systems (UIS) are essential tools in nondestructive testing (NDT). In general, the quality of images depends on two factors: system hardware features and image reconstruction algorithms. This paper presents a new image reconstructi...
Novelty detection aims to detect samples from classes different from the training samples (i.e., the normal class). Existing approaches predominantly make the target reconstruction better and choose the appropriate reconstruction error measurement me...
Multi-view 3D reconstruction technology is used to restore a 3D model of practical value or required objects from a group of images. This paper designs and implements a set of multi-view 3D reconstruction technology, adopts the fusion method of SIFT...
Ancestral genome reconstruction can be understood as a phylogenetic study with more details than a traditional phylogenetic tree reconstruction. We present a new computational system called REGEN for ancestral bacterial genome reconstruction at both...
The reconstruction of historic cities is a complicated challenge that has been faced using different principles diachronically. Historic cities that have suffered severe damage are areas that need to be replanned to preserve their urban characteristi...
Background/Objectives: Transoral robotic surgery (TORS) has advanced treatment for complex oropharyngeal cancers (OPC) by offering minimally invasive, precise approaches, initially for ablative and now for reconstructive procedures. This review exami...
We present a real-time Truncated Signed Distance Field (TSDF)-based three-dimensional (3D) semantic reconstruction for LiDAR point cloud, which achieves incremental surface reconstruction and highly accurate semantic segmentation. The high-precise 3D...
In this paper, the theoretical lower-bound on the success probability of blind reconstruction of Bose–Chaudhuri–Hocquenghem (BCH) codes is derived. In particular, the blind reconstruction method of BCH codes based on the consecutive roots...
Vulvar and perineal reconstruction represents a significant surgical challenge, particularly in the context of oncological resections, trauma, or postpartum injuries. Vulvar cancer, predominantly squamous cell carcinoma, often necessitates extensive...
Three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction of a tree canopy is an important step in order to measure canopy geometry, such as height, width, volume, and leaf cover area. In this research, binocular stereo vision was used to recover the 3D information of t...
After large scale disasters, reconstruction is often initiated by stakeholders to minimize disaster impacts and to mitigate a recurrence. For most reconstruction programmes, priority is given to reconstruction of permanent housing in consideration of...
Image-based 3D reconstruction generates 3D mesh models from images and plays an important role in all walks of life. However, existing methods suffer from poor reconstruction quality and low reconstruction efficiency. To address this issue, we propos...
In the past few years, significant advancements in microscopic imaging technology have led to the production of numerous high-resolution images capturing brain neurons at the micrometer scale. The reconstructed structure of neurons from neuronal imag...
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