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# KNEEL: Hourglass Networks for Knee Anatomical Landmark Localization

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<img src="assets/landmarks_kl.png" width="800"/>
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(c) Aleksei Tiulpin, University of Oulu, 2019-2024

## What this is about
This repo now stores updated models from https://github.com/Oulu-IMEDS/KNEEL. 

Cite our paper as follows:

```
@article{tiulpin2019kneel,
  title={KNEEL: Knee Anatomical Landmark Localization Using Hourglass Networks},
  author={Tiulpin, Aleksei and Melekhov, Iaroslav and Saarakkala, Simo},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:1907.12237},
  year={2019}
}
```

In this paper we tackled the problem of anatomical landmark localization in knee radiographs at all stages of osteoarthritis. We combined recent advances of landmark localization field and distilled them into a novel modification of hourgalss architecture.

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