Feng, S.-W.; Lin, S.-Y.; Chiang, Y.-H.; Lu, M.-H.; Chao, Y.-H. Deep Learning-Based Hip X-ray Image Analysis for Predicting Osteoporosis. Appl. Sci.2024, 14, 133.
Feng, S.-W.; Lin, S.-Y.; Chiang, Y.-H.; Lu, M.-H.; Chao, Y.-H. Deep Learning-Based Hip X-ray Image Analysis for Predicting Osteoporosis. Appl. Sci. 2024, 14, 133.
Feng, S.-W.; Lin, S.-Y.; Chiang, Y.-H.; Lu, M.-H.; Chao, Y.-H. Deep Learning-Based Hip X-ray Image Analysis for Predicting Osteoporosis. Appl. Sci.2024, 14, 133.
Feng, S.-W.; Lin, S.-Y.; Chiang, Y.-H.; Lu, M.-H.; Chao, Y.-H. Deep Learning-Based Hip X-ray Image Analysis for Predicting Osteoporosis. Appl. Sci. 2024, 14, 133.
Abstract
Osteoporosis is a common problem in orthopedic medicine, and it has become an important medical issue in orthopedics as Taiwan is gradually becoming an aging society. In the diagnosis of osteoporosis, the bone mineral density (BMD) derived from dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) is the main criterion for orthopedic diagnosis of osteoporosis, but due to the high cost of this equipment and the lower penetration rate of the equipment compared to the X-ray images, the problem of osteoporosis has not been effectively solved for many people who suffer from osteoporosis, however, at present, in clinical diagnosis, doctors are not yet able to accurately interpret X-ray images for osteoporosis manually, and must rely on the data obtained from DXA. In recent years, with the continuous development of artificial intelligence, especially in machine learning and deep learning, significant progress has been made in image recognition. Therefore, it is worthwhile to revisit whether it is possible to use a convolutional neural network model to read a hip X-ray image and then predict the patient's BMD. In this study, we proposed a hip X-ray image segmentation model and a hip X-ray image recognition classification model. First, we used the U-Net model as a framework to segment the femoral neck, greater trochanter, wards triangle, and the total hip in the hip X-ray images. We then performed image matting and data augmentation. Finally, we constructed a predictive model for osteoporosis using deep learning algorithms. In the segmentation experiments, we used intersection over union (IoU) as the evaluation metric for image segmentation, and both the U-Net and U-Net++ models achieved segmentation results greater than or equal to 0.5. In the classification experiments, using the T-score as the classification basis, the total hip using the DenseNet121 model has the highest accuracy of 74%.
Keywords
osteoporosis; bone mineral density; X-ray imaging; machine learning; deep learning
Subject
Computer Science and Mathematics, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
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