About the Authors

Maxence Coulombe

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Medecine, University of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Department of Orthopedics, Sainte-Justine University Hospital Center, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Aymeric Guy

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Orthopedics, Sainte-Justine University Hospital Center, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Polytechnique Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Soraya Barchi

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Orthopedics, Sainte-Justine University Hospital Center, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Hubert Labelle

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

hubert.labelle@umontreal.ca

Affiliations Department of Orthopedics, Sainte-Justine University Hospital Center, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Department of Surgery, University of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Carl-Éric Aubin

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Orthopedics, Sainte-Justine University Hospital Center, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Polytechnique Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Department of Surgery, University of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Competing Interests

MC and AG are cofounders and shareholders of Modulate Technologies Inc. HL is a cofounder and shareholder of Spinologics Inc. CEA has a discovery grant from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), and a NSERC industrial research grant with Medtronic of Canada paid to the university (outside the scope of the current study). SB declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest. The NSERC grant with Medtronic was not been used to fund this research project. A patent application on the optimization algorithm has been submitted. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.