Bone Mineral Density Prediction from CT Image: A Novel Approach using ANN
Background. Though treatable, osteoporosis continues as a substantially underdiagnosed and undertreated condition. Bone mineral density (BMD) monitoring will definitely aid in the prediction and prevention of medical emergencies arising from osteoporosis. Although quantitative computed tomography (Q...
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| author | S. L. Resmi V. Hashim Jesna Mohammed P. N. Dileep |
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| description | Background. Though treatable, osteoporosis continues as a substantially underdiagnosed and undertreated condition. Bone mineral density (BMD) monitoring will definitely aid in the prediction and prevention of medical emergencies arising from osteoporosis. Although quantitative computed tomography (QCT) is one of the most widely accepted tools for measuring BMD, it lacks the contribution of bone architecture in predicting BMD, which is significant as aging progresses. This paper presents an innovative approach for the prediction of BMD incorporating bone architecture that involves no extra cost, time, and exposure to severe radiation. Methods. In this approach, the BMD is predicted using clinical CT scan images taken for other indications based on image processing and artificial neural network (ANN). The network used in this study is a standard backpropagation neural network having five input neurons with one hidden layer having 40 neurons with a tan-sigmoidal activation function. The Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) image properties extracted from QCT of human skull and femur bone of rabbit that are closely associated with the BMD are used as input parameters of the ANN. The density value of the bone which is computed from the Hounsfield units of QCT scan image through phantom calibration is used as the target value for training the network. Results. The ANN model predicts the density values using the image properties from the clinical CT of the same rabbit femur bone and is compared with the density value computed from QCT scan. The correlation coefficient between predicted BMD and QCT density valued to 0.883. The proposed network can assist clinicians in identifying early stage of osteoporosis and devise suitable strategies to improve BMD with no additional cost. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-212b3147a982428383780541d634708d2025-02-03T01:30:23ZengWileyApplied Bionics and Biomechanics1754-21032023-01-01202310.1155/2023/1123953Bone Mineral Density Prediction from CT Image: A Novel Approach using ANNS. L. Resmi0V. Hashim1Jesna Mohammed2P. N. Dileep3Department of Mechanical EngineeringDepartment of Mechanical EngineeringDepartment of Mechanical EngineeringDepartment of Mechanical EngineeringBackground. Though treatable, osteoporosis continues as a substantially underdiagnosed and undertreated condition. Bone mineral density (BMD) monitoring will definitely aid in the prediction and prevention of medical emergencies arising from osteoporosis. Although quantitative computed tomography (QCT) is one of the most widely accepted tools for measuring BMD, it lacks the contribution of bone architecture in predicting BMD, which is significant as aging progresses. This paper presents an innovative approach for the prediction of BMD incorporating bone architecture that involves no extra cost, time, and exposure to severe radiation. Methods. In this approach, the BMD is predicted using clinical CT scan images taken for other indications based on image processing and artificial neural network (ANN). The network used in this study is a standard backpropagation neural network having five input neurons with one hidden layer having 40 neurons with a tan-sigmoidal activation function. The Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) image properties extracted from QCT of human skull and femur bone of rabbit that are closely associated with the BMD are used as input parameters of the ANN. The density value of the bone which is computed from the Hounsfield units of QCT scan image through phantom calibration is used as the target value for training the network. Results. The ANN model predicts the density values using the image properties from the clinical CT of the same rabbit femur bone and is compared with the density value computed from QCT scan. The correlation coefficient between predicted BMD and QCT density valued to 0.883. The proposed network can assist clinicians in identifying early stage of osteoporosis and devise suitable strategies to improve BMD with no additional cost.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2023/1123953 |
| spellingShingle | S. L. Resmi V. Hashim Jesna Mohammed P. N. Dileep Bone Mineral Density Prediction from CT Image: A Novel Approach using ANN Applied Bionics and Biomechanics |
| title | Bone Mineral Density Prediction from CT Image: A Novel Approach using ANN |
| title_full | Bone Mineral Density Prediction from CT Image: A Novel Approach using ANN |
| title_fullStr | Bone Mineral Density Prediction from CT Image: A Novel Approach using ANN |
| title_full_unstemmed | Bone Mineral Density Prediction from CT Image: A Novel Approach using ANN |
| title_short | Bone Mineral Density Prediction from CT Image: A Novel Approach using ANN |
| title_sort | bone mineral density prediction from ct image a novel approach using ann |
| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2023/1123953 |
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