Shoulder Implant X-Ray Manufacturer Classification

Shoulder replacement surgery, also called total shoulder replacement, is a common and complex surgery in Orthopedics discipline. It involves replacing a dead shoulder joint with an artificial implant. In the market, there are many artificial implant manufacturers and each of them may produce different implants with different structures compares to other providers. The problem arises in the following situation: a patient has some problems with the shoulder implant accessory and the manufacturer of that implant maybe unknown to either the patient or the doctor, therefore, correctly identification of the manufacturer is the key prior to the treatment. In this paper, we showed the performance of different machine learning and deep learning methods in classifying the manufacturer of a shoulder implant. The code is available at this url

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@article{zhou2021shoulder,
  title={Shoulder implant x-ray manufacturer classification: Exploring with vision transformer},
  author={Zhou, Meng and Mo, Shanglin},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.07667},
  year={2021}
}