Pediatric Bone Age Assessment Using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks
Skeletal bone age assessment is a common clinical practice to diagnose endocrine and metabolic disorders in child development. In this paper, we describe a fully automated deep learning approach to the problem of bone age assessment using data from Pediatric Bone Age Challenge organized by RSNA 2017. The dataset for this competition is consisted of 12.6k radiological images of left hand labeled by the bone age and sex of patients. Our approach utilizes several deep learning architectures: U-Net, ResNet-50, and custom VGG-style neural networks trained end-to-end. We use images of whole hands as well as specific parts of a hand for both training and inference. This approach allows us to measure importance of specific hand bones for the automated bone age analysis. We further evaluate performance of the method in the context of skeletal development stages. Our approach outperforms other common methods for bone age assessment.
Code (0)
등록된 구현이 없습니다.
Methods 이 논문이 사용한 방법론
Similar Papers 제목 키워드 기반
Ridge Regression Neural Network for Pediatric Bone Age Assessment
Bone age is an important measure for assessing the skeletal and biological maturity of children. Delayed or increased bone age is a serious concern for pediatricians, and needs to be accurately assessed in a bid to deter…
Instance SegmentationregressionSemantic SegmentationPediatric Bone Age Assessment using Deep Learning Models
Bone age assessment (BAA) is a standard method for determining the age difference between skeletal and chronological age. Manual processes are complicated and necessitate the expertise of experts. This is where deep lear…
Deep LearningAn Unsupervised Deep-Learning Method for Bone Age Assessment
The bone age, reflecting the degree of development of the bones, can be used to predict the adult height and detect endocrine diseases of children. Both examinations of radiologists and variability of operators have a si…
Deep LearningMulti-structure bone segmentation in pediatric MR images with combined regularization from shape priors and adversarial network
Morphological and diagnostic evaluation of pediatric musculoskeletal system is crucial in clinical practice. However, most segmentation models do not perform well on scarce pediatric imaging data. We propose a new pre-tr…
DecoderDiagnosticManagementSegmentation+2Residual Attention based Network for Hand Bone Age Assessment
Computerized automatic methods have been employed to boost the productivity as well as objectiveness of hand bone age assessment. These approaches make predictions according to the whole X-ray images, which include other…
Hand Segmentation