Automated Acetabular Defect Reconstruction and Analysis for Revision Total Hip Arthroplasty: A Computational Modeling Study
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2025
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Hopkins, D.
Callary, S.A.
Solomon, L.B.
Lee, P.V.S.
Ackland, D.C.
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Journal of Orthopaedic Research, 2025; 43(7):1315-1324
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Daniel Hopkins, Stuart A. Callary, L. Bogdan Solomon, Peter V. S. Lee, David C. Ackland
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Revision total hip arthroplasty (rTHA) involving large acetabular defects is associated with high early failure rates, primarily due to cup loosening. Most acetabular defect classification systems used in surgical planning are based on planar radiographs and do not encapsulate three-dimensional geometry and morphology of the acetabular defect. This study aimed to develop an automated computational modeling pipeline for rapid generation of three-dimensional acetabular bone defect geometry. The framework employed artificial neural network segmentation of preoperative pelvic computed tomography (CT) images and statistical shape model generation for defect reconstruction in 60 rTHA patients. Regional acetabular absolute defect volumes (ADV), relative defect volumes (RDV) and defect depths (DD) were calculated and stratified within Paprosky classifications. Defect geometries from the automated modeling pipeline were validated against manually reconstructed models and were found to have a mean dice coefficient of 0.827 and a mean relative volume error of 16.4%. The mean ADV, RDV and DD of classification groups generally increased with defect severity. Except for superior RDV and ADV between 3A and 2A defects, and anterior RDV and DD between 3B and 3A defects, statistically significant differences in ADV, RDV or DD were only found between 3B and 2B-2C defects (p < 0.05). Poor correlations observed between ADV, RDV, and DD within Paprosky classifications suggest that quantitative measures are not unique to each Paprosky grade. The automated modeling tools developed may be useful in surgical planning and computational modeling of rTHA.
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© 2025 The Author(s). Journal of Orthopaedic Research® published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of Orthopaedic Research Society. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.