Ruurd Kuiper

Ruurd Kuiper

Assistant Professor in AI and NLP for Healthcare at UMC Utrecht.

Publications

For the most up-to-date list and citation metrics, see my Google Scholar profile.

2025

  • The Impact of varus and valgus alignment on knee cartilage quality assessed by magnetic resonance imaging: insights from the IMI-APPROACH cohort. EA Bax, JAJ Kerkhof, N van Egmond, RJA Kuiper, H Rayegan, et al. The Knee 57, 477-487, 2025. Link
  • LAD: LoRA-Adapted Diffusion. RJA Kuiper, L de Groot, B van Es, M van Smeden, A Bagheri. Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: System Demonstrations, 2025. Link
  • From Data-Driven to Purpose-Driven Artificial Intelligence: Systems Thinking for Data-Analytic Automation of Patient Care. Anadria D, Dobbe R, Giachanou A, Kuiper R, Bartels R, van Amsterdam W, de Troya IMR, Zurcher C, Oberski D. arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.13584, 2025. Link
  • A structured framework for standardized 3D leg alignment analysis: an international Delphi consensus study. Veerman QWT, Tuijthof GJM, Verdonschot N, Brouwer RW, Verdonk P, van Haver A, van der Veen HC, Pijpker PAJ, olde Heuvel J, Hoogeslag RAG, et al. Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy, 2025. Link
  • The Impact of Varus and Valgus Alignment on Knee Cartilage Quality Assessed by Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Insights from the IMI-APPROACH Cohort. Bax E, Kerkhof J, van Egmond N, Kuiper R, Rayegan H, Kloppenburg M, Blanco-Garcia FJ, Haugen IK, Berenbaum F, Mastbergen S, et al. Osteoarthritis and Cartilage, 2025. Link
  • Bony Varus Malalignment Accelerates Knee Osteoarthritis Progression: Insights from Joint Line Convergence Angle in the IMI-APPROACH Cohort. Bax E, Custers RJ, van Egmond N, Rayegan H, Kuiper R, Kloppenburg M, Blanco-Garcia FJ, Haugen IK, Berenbaum F, Mastbergen S, et al. Osteoarthritis and Cartilage, 2025. Link
  • Progression of bone and intra-articular joint space deformity in patients with mild knee osteoarthritis: data from the IMI-APPROACH cohort. Nguyen C, Bax E, Custers R, van Egmond N, Kuiper R, Arbabi V, Rayegan H, Gielis WP, Sakkers R, Kloppenburg M, et al. Osteoarthritis and Cartilage, 2025. Link
  • A Survey of Discrete Diffusion for Text and Genomic Sequence Generation. L de Groot, RJA Kuiper, A Bagheri. The 37th Benelux Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the 34th Belgian-Dutch Conference on Machine Learning, 2025. Link

2023

  • Automatic assessment of lower-limb alignment from computed tomography. Kuiper RJA, Seevinck PR, Viergever MA, Weinans H, Sakkers RJB. JBJS, 2023. Link
  • Impact of bone and cartilage segmentation from CT and MRI on both bone forearm osteotomy planning. Kuiper RJA, Colaris JW, Stockmans F, van Es EM, Viergever MA, Seevinck PR, Weinans H, Sakkers RJB. International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery, 2023. Link
  • Computer-Assisted Osteotomy Planning: Medical Imaging Techniques for Orthopaedic Surgery. Kuiper RJA. PhD Thesis, Utrecht University, 2023. Link

2022

  • Efficient cascaded V-net optimization for lower extremity CT segmentation validated using bone morphology assessment. Kuiper RJA, Sakkers RJB, van Stralen M, Arbabi V, Viergever MA, Weinans H, Seevinck PR. Journal of Orthopaedic Research, 2022. Link

2021

  • 3D-printed saw guides for lower arm osteotomy, a comparison between a synthetic CT and CT-based workflow. Willemsen K, Ketel MHM, Zijlstra F, Florkow MC, Kuiper RJA, van der Wal BCH, Weinans H, Pouran B, Beekman FJ, Seevinck PR, et al. 3D Printing in Medicine, 2021. Link
  • CT to MR registration of complex deformations in the knee joint through dual quaternion interpolation of rigid transforms. Kuiper RJA, van Stralen M, Sakkers RJB, Bergmans RHJ, Zijlstra F, Viergever MA, Weinans H, Seevinck PR. Physics in Medicine and Biology, 2021. Link

2017

  • A Finite Element Approach to Brace Treatment for the Scoliotic Spine. Kuiper RJA. MSc Thesis, 2017. Link