A CAD system and quality assurance protocol for bone age assessment utilizing digital hand atlas

Arakadiusz Gertych; Aifeng Zhang; Benjamin Ferrara; Brent J. Liu

doi:10.1117/12.709826

21 March 2007 A CAD system and quality assurance protocol for bone age assessment utilizing digital hand atlas

Arakadiusz Gertych, Aifeng Zhang, Benjamin Ferrara, Brent J. Liu

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Proceedings Volume 6516, Medical Imaging 2007: PACS and Imaging Informatics; 651619 (2007) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.709826
Event: Medical Imaging, 2007, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

Determination of bone age assessment (BAA) in pediatric radiology is a task based on detailed analysis of patient's left hand X-ray. The current standard utilized in clinical practice relies on a subjective comparison of the hand with patterns in the book atlas. The computerized approach to BAA (CBAA) utilizes automatic analysis of the regions of interest in the hand image. This procedure is followed by extraction of quantitative features sensitive to skeletal development that are further converted to a bone age value utilizing knowledge from the digital hand atlas (DHA). This also allows providing BAA results resembling current clinical approach. All developed methodologies have been combined into one CAD module with a graphical user interface (GUI). CBAA can also improve the statistical and analytical accuracy based on a clinical work-flow analysis. For this purpose a quality assurance protocol (QAP) has been developed. Implementation of the QAP helped to make the CAD more robust and find images that cannot meet conditions required by DHA standards. Moreover, the entire CAD-DHA system may gain further benefits if clinical acquisition protocol is modified. The goal of this study is to present the performance improvement of the overall CAD-DHA system with QAP and the comparison of the CAD results with chronological age of 1390 normal subjects from the DHA. The CAD workstation can process images from local image database or from a PACS server.

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Arakadiusz Gertych, Aifeng Zhang, Benjamin Ferrara, and Brent J. Liu "A CAD system and quality assurance protocol for bone age assessment utilizing digital hand atlas", Proc. SPIE 6516, Medical Imaging 2007: PACS and Imaging Informatics, 651619 (21 March 2007); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.709826

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Computer aided design

Bone

Image quality

Computer aided diagnosis and therapy

Image processing

Image analysis

X-rays

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