Research on an intelligent evaluation method of bone age based on multi-region combination

Bone age is one of the most important evaluation indexes for the growth and development of children and adolescents. The bone age assessment method based on deep learning generally uses the whole left wrist X-ray film or some regions of interest in the left wrist X-ray film. Based on the entire X-ra...

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Main Authors: Kaiyan Chen, Jianan Wu, Yan Mao, Wei Lu, Keji Mao, Wenxiu He
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2023-12-01
Series:Systems Science & Control Engineering
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Online Access:https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/21642583.2023.2233545
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author Kaiyan Chen
Jianan Wu
Yan Mao
Wei Lu
Keji Mao
Wenxiu He
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Jianan Wu
Yan Mao
Wei Lu
Keji Mao
Wenxiu He
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description Bone age is one of the most important evaluation indexes for the growth and development of children and adolescents. The bone age assessment method based on deep learning generally uses the whole left wrist X-ray film or some regions of interest in the left wrist X-ray film. Based on the entire X-ray film, the intelligent evaluation process is simple, but the accuracy is low. Although intelligent evaluation based on regions of interest has high accuracy, it requires prior knowledge and the process is complex. To solve the above problems, this paper proposes a multi-region combined method for bone age assessment. A small number of regions of interest in wrist bone X-ray films are extracted, and then the whole X-ray film and these regions of interest were used to evaluate the bone age. The experiment uses the improved Inception-ResNet-V2 convolutional neural network. The results show that compared with other bone age assessment studies on the open data set published by the North American radiological Association, this method can obtain higher accuracy of bone age assessment, with an average absolute error of 7.11 months. This method improves the efficiency and accuracy of bone age assessment while simplifying the assessment process.
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spelling doaj.art-4ec10e17546a491a947358a4a748381c2023-11-30T12:45:32ZengTaylor & Francis GroupSystems Science & Control Engineering2164-25832023-12-0111110.1080/21642583.2023.2233545Research on an intelligent evaluation method of bone age based on multi-region combinationKaiyan Chen0Jianan Wu1Yan Mao2Wei Lu3Keji Mao4Wenxiu He5College of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou, People’s Republic of ChinaCollege of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou, People’s Republic of ChinaCollege of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou, People’s Republic of ChinaCollege of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou, People’s Republic of ChinaCollege of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou, People’s Republic of ChinaCollege of Zhijiang, Zhejiang University of Technology, Shaoxing, People’s Republic of ChinaBone age is one of the most important evaluation indexes for the growth and development of children and adolescents. The bone age assessment method based on deep learning generally uses the whole left wrist X-ray film or some regions of interest in the left wrist X-ray film. Based on the entire X-ray film, the intelligent evaluation process is simple, but the accuracy is low. Although intelligent evaluation based on regions of interest has high accuracy, it requires prior knowledge and the process is complex. To solve the above problems, this paper proposes a multi-region combined method for bone age assessment. A small number of regions of interest in wrist bone X-ray films are extracted, and then the whole X-ray film and these regions of interest were used to evaluate the bone age. The experiment uses the improved Inception-ResNet-V2 convolutional neural network. The results show that compared with other bone age assessment studies on the open data set published by the North American radiological Association, this method can obtain higher accuracy of bone age assessment, with an average absolute error of 7.11 months. This method improves the efficiency and accuracy of bone age assessment while simplifying the assessment process.https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/21642583.2023.2233545Deep learningconvolutional neural networkbone age assessmentregion of interestimage enhancement
spellingShingle Kaiyan Chen
Jianan Wu
Yan Mao
Wei Lu
Keji Mao
Wenxiu He
Research on an intelligent evaluation method of bone age based on multi-region combination
Systems Science & Control Engineering
Deep learning
convolutional neural network
bone age assessment
region of interest
image enhancement
title Research on an intelligent evaluation method of bone age based on multi-region combination
title_full Research on an intelligent evaluation method of bone age based on multi-region combination
title_fullStr Research on an intelligent evaluation method of bone age based on multi-region combination
title_full_unstemmed Research on an intelligent evaluation method of bone age based on multi-region combination
title_short Research on an intelligent evaluation method of bone age based on multi-region combination
title_sort research on an intelligent evaluation method of bone age based on multi region combination
topic Deep learning
convolutional neural network
bone age assessment
region of interest
image enhancement
url https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/21642583.2023.2233545
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