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Purpose: The purpose is to design a novelty automatic diagnostic method for osteoporosis screening by using the potential capability of convolutional neural network (CNN) in feature representation and extraction, which can be incorporated…

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Scoliosis is a congenital disease in which the spine is deformed from its normal shape. Measurement of scoliosis requires labeling and identification of vertebrae in the spine. Spine radiographs are the most cost-effective and accessible…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-16 Abdullah-Al-Zubaer Imran , Chao Huang , Hui Tang , Wei Fan , Kenneth M. C. Cheung , Michael To , Zhen Qian , Demetri Terzopoulos

Osteoporosis, a major global epidemic, often goes undetected until a fracture occurs, largely due to poor access to screening using gold standard methods, such as dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA). As a potential nonionizing radiation…

Medical Physics · Physics 2026-03-20 Mohammad Hosseini , Sadia Afrin , Anthony Yosick , Hani Awad , Andrew J. Berger

Objectives. The aim of this study was to investigate whether a deep convolutional neural network (CNN) with an attention module can detect osteoporosis on panoramic radiographs. Study Design. A dataset of 70 panoramic radiographs (PRs) from…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-20 Heng Fan , Jiaxiang Ren , Jie Yang , Yi-Xian Qin , Haibin Ling

Medical imaging plays a crucial role in assessing knee osteoarthritis (OA) risk by enabling early detection and disease monitoring. Recent machine learning methods have improved risk estimation (i.e., predicting the likelihood of disease…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-18 David Butler , Adrian Hilton , Gustavo Carneiro

This paper focuses on drawing statistical inference based on a novel variant of maxima or minima nomination sampling (NS) designs. These sampling designs are useful for obtaining more representative sample units from the tails of the…

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Scoliosis is a sideways curvature of the spine that most often is diagnosed among young teenagers. It dramatically affects the quality of life, which can cause complications from heart and lung injuries in severe cases. The current gold…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-01 Yen Hoang Nguyen

Musculoskeletal diseases such as sarcopenia and osteoporosis are major obstacles to health during aging. Although dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) and computed tomography (CT) can be used to evaluate musculoskeletal conditions,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-24 Yi Gu , Yoshito Otake , Keisuke Uemura , Masaki Takao , Mazen Soufi , Yuta Hiasa , Hugues Talbot , Seiji Okata , Nobuhiko Sugano , Yoshinobu Sato

Background: Osteoporosis and osteopenia are often undiagnosed until fragility fractures occur. Dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) is the reference standard for bone mineral density (BMD) assessment, but access remains limited. Knee…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Zhaochen Li , Xinghao Yan , Runni Zhou , Xiaoyang Li , Chenjie Zhu , Gege Wang , Yu Shi , Lixin Zhang , Rongrong Fu , Liehao Yan , Yuan Chai

Bone health studies are crucial in medical practice for the early detection and treatment of Osteopenia and Osteoporosis. Clinicians usually make a diagnosis based on densitometry (DEXA scans) and patient history. The applications of AI in…

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Disease-modifying management aims to prevent deterioration and progression of the disease, not just relieve symptoms. Unfortunately, the development of necessary therapies is often hampered by the failure to recognize the presymptomatic…

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Bone fragility and fracture caused by osteoporosis or injury are prevalent in adults over the age of 50 and can reduce their quality of life. Hence, predicting the biomechanical bone strength, specifically of the proximal femur, through…

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In the U.S, 5-10\% of new pediatric cases of cancer are primary bone tumors. The most common type of primary malignant bone tumor is osteosarcoma. The intention of the present work is to improve the detection and diagnosis of osteosarcoma…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-06 D M Anisuzzaman , Hosein Barzekar , Ling Tong , Jake Luo , Zeyun Yu

Osteosarcoma is the most common primary malignant bone tumor, which has high mortality due to easy lung metastasis. Osteosarcoma is a highly anaplastic, pleomorphic tumor with a variety of tumor cell morphology, including fusiform, oval,…

Medical Physics · Physics 2021-01-27 Yu Fu

Plain X-ray is one of the most common image modalities for clinical diagnosis (e.g. bone fracture, pneumonia, cancer screening, etc.). X-ray image segmentation is an essential step for many computer-aided diagnostic systems, yet it remains…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-11 Youssef ElTantawy , Alexia Karantana , Xin Chen

The diagnosis of primary bone tumors is challenging, as the initial complaints are often non-specific. Early detection of bone cancer is crucial for a favorable prognosis. Incidentally, lesions may be found on radiographs obtained for other…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-22 Tal Zimbalist , Ronnie Rosen , Keren Peri-Hanania , Yaron Caspi , Bar Rinott , Carmel Zeltser-Dekel , Eyal Bercovich , Yonina C. Eldar , Shai Bagon

Osteoporosis induced fractures occur worldwide about every 3 seconds. Vertebral compression fractures are early signs of the disease and considered risk predictors for secondary osteoporotic fractures. We present a detection method to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-06 Joeri Nicolaes , Steven Raeymaeckers , David Robben , Guido Wilms , Dirk Vandermeulen , Cesar Libanati , Marc Debois

The scoliosis progression in adolescents requires close monitoring to timely take treatment measures. Ultrasound imaging is a radiation-free and low-cost alternative in scoliosis assessment to X-rays, which are typically used in clinical…

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In this chapter we explore and evaluate methods for trabecular bone characterization and osteoporosis diagnosis with increased interest in sparse approximations. We first describe texture representation and classification techniques,…

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