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Yoshinobu Sato is affiliated with the Nara Institute of Science and Technology in Japan. Their research primarily centers around medicine, with a particular emphasis on surgery, biomedical engineering, radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, orthopedics and sports medicine, and physiology.

Their work addresses a range of topics including advanced X-ray and CT imaging, bone health and osteoporosis research, radiomics and machine learning in medical imaging, medical imaging techniques and applications, body composition measurement techniques, orthopaedic implants and arthroplasty, and medical imaging and analysis.

Yoshinobu Sato has contributed multiple papers to various publication venues. Notable recent papers include:

  • Automated Surgical Instrument Detection from Laparoscopic Gastrectomy Video Images Using an Open Source Convolutional Neural Network Platform, 2020, Journal of the American College of Surgeons
  • 2D-3D reconstruction of distal forearm bone from actual X-ray images of the wrist using convolutional neural networks, 2021, Scientific Reports
  • Three-dimensional reconstructions of haustoria in two parasitic plant species in the Orobanchaceae, 2021, PLANT PHYSIOLOGY
  • Development of an open-source measurement system to assess the areal bone mineral density of the proximal femur from clinical CT images, 2022, Archives of Osteoporosis
  • Bayesian Segmentation of Hip and Thigh Muscles in Metal Artifact-Contaminated CT Using Convolutional Neural Network-Enhanced Normalized Metal Artifact Reduction, 2020, Journal of Signal Processing Systems

Their frequent coauthors include Yoshito Otake, Keisuke Uemura, Mazen Soufi, Nobuhiko Sugano, and Masaki Takao.The collaboration with these researchers highlights an interdisciplinary approach to medical imaging and surgical applications.

Key publication venues where Yoshinobu Sato has contributed multiple works include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery
  • Scientific Reports
  • Journal of Japan Society of Computer Aided Surgery
  • Archives of Osteoporosis

Best Publications

  • Three-dimensional multi-scale line filter for segmentation and visualization of curvilinear structures in medical images.

    Yoshinobu Sato;Shin Nakajima;Nobuyuki Shiraga;Hideki Atsumi

  • Tissue classification based on 3D local intensity structures for volume rendering

    Y. Sato;C. Westin;A. Bhalerao;S. Nakajima

  • 3D Multi-scale line filter for segmentation and visualization of curvilinear structures in medical images

    Yoshinobu Sato;Shin Nakajima;Hideki Atsumi;Thomas Koller

  • Image guidance of breast cancer surgery using 3-D ultrasound images and augmented reality visualization

    Y. Sato;M. Nakamoto;Y. Tamaki;T. Sasama

  • Cross-Modality Image Synthesis from Unpaired Data Using CycleGAN

    Yuta Hiasa;Yoshito Otake;Masaki Takao;Takumi Matsuoka

  • Mid-term results of cementless total hip replacement using a ceramic-on-ceramic bearing with and without computer navigation

    N. Sugano;T. Nishii;H. Miki;H. Yoshikawa

  • Abdominal multi-organ segmentation from CT images using conditional shape–location and unsupervised intensity priors

    Toshiyuki Okada;Marius George Linguraru;Masatoshi Hori;Ronald M. Summers

  • Local maximum intensity projection (LMIP): a new rendering method for vascular visualization.

    Yoshinobu Sato;Nobuyuki Shiraga;Shin Nakajima;Shinichi Tamura

  • Automated segmentation of the liver from 3D CT images using probabilistic atlas and multilevel statistical shape model.

    Toshiyuki Okada;Ryuji Shimada;Masatoshi Hori;Masahiko Nakamoto

  • Automated Muscle Segmentation from Clinical CT Using Bayesian U-Net for Personalized Musculoskeletal Modeling

    Yuta Hiasa;Yoshito Otake;Masaki Takao;Takeshi Ogawa

  • Automated segmentation of acetabulum and femoral head from 3-d CT images

    R.A. Zoroofi;Y. Sato;T. Sasama;T. Nishii

  • Anatomic hip range of motion after implantation during total hip arthroplasty as measured by a navigation system.

    Hidenobu Miki;Wataru Yamanashi;Takashi Nishii;Yoshinobu Sato

  • Accuracy evaluation of surface‐based registration methods in a computer navigation system for hip surgery performed through a posterolateral approach

    Nobuhiko Sugano;Toshihiko Sasama;Yoshinobu Sato;Yoshikazu Nakajima

  • Construction of Hierarchical Multi-Organ Statistical Atlases and Their Application to Multi-Organ Segmentation from CT Images

    Toshiyuki Okada;Keita Yokota;Masatoshi Hori;Masahiko Nakamoto

  • Three-dimensional distribution of acetabular cartilage thickness in patients with hip dysplasia: a fully automated computational analysis of MR imaging.

    Takashi Nishii;Nobuhiko Sugano;Yoshinobu Sato;Hisashi Tanaka

  • Automatic extraction and measurement of leukocyte motion in microvessels using spatiotemporal image analysis

    Y. Sato;Jian Chen;R.A. Zoroofi;N. Harada

  • Orientation space filtering for multiple orientation line segmentation

    Jian Chen;Y. Sato;S. Tamura

  • Intraoperative Magnetic Tracker Calibration Using a Magneto-Optic Hybrid Tracker for 3-D Ultrasound-Based Navigation in Laparoscopic Surgery

    M. Nakamoto;K. Nakada;Y. Sato;K. Konishi

  • A viewpoint determination system for stenosis diagnosis and quantification in coronary angiographic image acquisition

    Y. Sato;T. Araki;M. Hanayama;H. Naito

  • Automated segmentation of the liver from 3D CT images using probabilistic atlas and multi-level statistical shape model

    Toshiyuki Okada;Ryuji Shimada;Yoshinobu Sato;Masatoshi Hori

  • Cross-modality image synthesis from unpaired data using CycleGAN: Effects of gradient consistency loss and training data size

    Yuta Hiasa;Yoshito Otake;Masaki Takao;Takumi Matsuoka

Frequent Co-Authors

Yen-Wei Chen
Yen-Wei Chen Ritsumeikan University
Kensaku Mori
Kensaku Mori Nagoya University
Ronald M. Summers
Ronald M. Summers National Institutes of Health
Christian Barillot
Christian Barillot Institut de Recherche en Informatique et Systèmes Aléatoires
Ron Kikinis
Ron Kikinis Brigham and Women's Hospital
Nassir Navab
Nassir Navab Technical University of Munich
Carl-Fredrik Westin
Carl-Fredrik Westin Brigham and Women's Hospital
Guido Gerig
Guido Gerig New York University
Mehran Armand
Mehran Armand Johns Hopkins University
Daniel Rueckert
Daniel Rueckert Technical University of Munich

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