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MosaicMRI: A Diverse Dataset and Benchmark for Raw Musculoskeletal MRI

Arguello, Paula, Tinaz, Berk, Sepehri, Mohammad Shahab, Soltanolkotabi, Maryam, Soltanolkotabi, Mahdi

arXiv.org Machine Learning

Deep learning underpins a wide range of applications in MRI, including reconstruction, artifact removal, and segmentation. However, progress has been driven largely by public datasets focused on brain and knee imaging, shaping how models are trained and evaluated. As a result, careful studies of the reliability of these models across diverse anatomical settings remain limited. In this work, we introduce MosaicMRI, a large and diverse collection of fully sampled raw musculoskeletal (MSK) MR measurements designed for training and evaluating machine-learning-based methods. MosaicMRI is the largest open-source raw MSK MRI dataset to date, comprising 2,671 volumes and 80,156 slices. The dataset offers substantial diversity in volume orientation (e.g., axial, sagittal), imaging contrasts (e.g., PD, T1, T2), anatomies (e.g., spine, knee, hip, ankle, and others), and numbers of acquisition coils. Using VarNet as a baseline for accelerated reconstruction task, we perform a comprehensive set of experiments to study scaling behavior with respect to both model capacity and dataset size. Interestingly, models trained on the combined anatomies significantly outperform anatomy-specific models in low-sample regimes, highlighting the benefits of anatomical diversity and the presence of exploitable cross-anatomical correlations. We further evaluate robustness and cross-anatomy generalization by training models on one anatomy (e.g., spine) and testing them on another (e.g., knee). Notably, we identify groups of body parts (e.g., foot and elbow) that generalize well with each other, and highlight that performance under domain shifts depends on both training set size, anatomy, and protocol-specific factors.


7 glute stretches for better mobility and less pain

Popular Science

Learn why your hips feel stiff and how to fix it with these expert-recommended movements for maximum mobility. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. For the largest muscle group in the body, glutes get relatively little attention outside their cosmetic contributions. Bridges, squats, and kickbacks help develop size and shape, but they paint an incomplete picture; for total hip health and function, your regimen should include a wide variety of movements. This includes glute stretches that take your body's second-most mobile joint through its fullest possible range of motion. "Our hips are where we move from.


Big Tech bent the knee for Trump in 2025

Engadget

Tech companies may have lost their moral standing, but at least they added shareholder value. Elon Musk holds up a chainsaw onstage during the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland, U.S., February 20, 2025. Sure, we've seen millions poured into lobbying and other means of influence during every presidency, but the last two years set a whole new bar. Business leaders, including those from almost every Big Tech company, stepped over themselves to prove fealty to Donald Trump's second administration. It's easy to see why: Their kowtowing was meant to secure regulatory favors, gain tax and tariff advantages and avoid Trump's ire.


Europe Is Bending the Knee to the US on Tech Policy

WIRED

The Trump administration's pressure on European regulators is having an impact, with fewer restrictions on Big Tech and canceled measures. Almost everything is on hiatus. The EU AI Act, Digital Services Act, and Digital Markets Act are all at risk. The European Commission is preparing to end the year with virtually no movement on its most important tech policy initiatives. Many measures may even be reversed.


6 hip stretches for tightness and pain

Popular Science

Is hip tightness to blame for your back or knee pain? The cool tattoos are optional. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Because, even among those of us who exercise regularly, the further we get from childhood the more limited our varieties of movement typically become, leading to weaker muscles, brittler bones and less mobile joints. "We don't move laterally as much anymore, as we get older and we're not playing sports. Even if you're long-distance running, you're just moving in one plane [of motion]," says Patrick Suarez, OCS, SCS, a physical therapist based in Albany, New York.


13 yoga positions to do every day for increased flexibility

Popular Science

Flexibility is an essential part of staying fit. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. In your efforts to exercise, chances are you've worked on improving the four components of physical fitness. The problem is there are actually five . Criminally overlooked in the pursuit of big-ticket goals like strength, endurance, lung capacity and body composition is flexibility.

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Event Detection for Active Lower Limb Prosthesis

Clark, J. D., Ellison, P.

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Accurate event detection is key to the successful design of semi-passive and powered prosthetics. Kinematically, the natural knee is complex, with translation and rotation components that have a substantial impact on gait characteristics. When simplified to a pin joint, some of this behaviour is lost. This study investigates the role of cruciate ligament stretch in event detection. A bicondylar knee design was used, constrained by analogues of the anterior and posterior cruciate ligaments. This offers the ability to characterize knee kinematics by the stretch of the ligaments. The ligament stretch was recorded using LVDTs parallel to the ligaments of the Russell knee on a bent knee crutch. Which was used to capture data on a treadmill at 3 speeds. This study finds speed dependence within the stretch of the cruciate ligaments, prominently around 5\% and 80\% of the gait cycle for the posterior and anterior. The cycle profile remains consistent with speed; therefore, other static events such as the turning point feature at around 90\% and 95\% of the cycle, for the posterior and anterior, respectively, could be used as a predictive precursor for initial contact. Likewise at 90\% and 95\%, another pair of turning points that in this case could be used to predict foot flat. This concludes that the use of a bicondylar knee design could improve the detection of events during the gait cycle, and therefore could increase the accuracy of subsequent controllers for powered prosthetics.


Bionic knee helps amputees walk naturally again

FOX News

Madeline Gardner is the youngest American person to get a Hero Arm, the world's first multi-grip bionic arm for children. Kicking a ball or climbing stairs with ease after a leg amputation above the knee is now within reach. Researchers at MIT have developed a bionic knee that redefines mobility for above-the-knee amputees. The result is faster, smoother, and more natural movement. Led by Professor Hugh Herr, the MIT team created a solution that doesn't just mimic motion, it responds to intent.


Chabria: 3 things that should scare us about Trump's fake video of Obama

Los Angeles Times

On Sunday, our thoughtful and reserved president reposted on his Truth Social site a video generated by artificial intelligence that falsely showed former President Obama being arrested and imprisoned. There are those among you who think this is high humor; those among you who who find it as tiresome as it is offensive; and those among you blissfully unaware of the mental morass that is Truth Social. Whatever camp you fall into, the video crosses all demographics by being expected -- just another crazy Trump stunt in a repetitive cycle of division and diversion so frequent it makes Groundhog Day seem fresh. But there are three reasons why this particular video -- not made by the president but amplified to thousands -- is worth noting, and maybe even worth fearing. First, it is flat-out racist. In it, Obama is ripped out of a chair in the Oval Office and forced onto his knees, almost bowing, to a laughing Trump.