Hand bone age estimation using divide and conquer strategy and lightweight convolutional neural networks

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Main Authors: Kasani, Amin Ahmadi, Sajedi, Hedieh
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author Kasani, Amin Ahmadi
Sajedi, Hedieh
author_facet Kasani, Amin Ahmadi
Sajedi, Hedieh
contents Estimating the Bone Age of children is very important for diagnosing growth defects, and related diseases, and estimating the final height that children reach after maturity. For this reason, it is widely used in different countries. Traditional methods for estimating bone age are performed by comparing atlas images and radiographic images of the left hand, which is time-consuming and error-prone. To estimate bone age using deep neural network models, a lot of research has been done, our effort has been to improve the accuracy and speed of this process by using the introduced approach. After creating and analyzing our initial model, we focused on preprocessing and made the inputs smaller, and increased their quality. we selected small regions of hand radiographs and estimated the age of the bone only according to these regions. by doing this we improved bone age estimation accuracy even further than what was achieved in related works, without increasing the required computational resource. We reached a Mean Absolute Error (MAE) of 3.90 months in the range of 0-20 years and an MAE of 3.84 months in the range of 1-18 years on the RSNA test set.
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spellingShingle Hand bone age estimation using divide and conquer strategy and lightweight convolutional neural networks
Kasani, Amin Ahmadi
Sajedi, Hedieh
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
Estimating the Bone Age of children is very important for diagnosing growth defects, and related diseases, and estimating the final height that children reach after maturity. For this reason, it is widely used in different countries. Traditional methods for estimating bone age are performed by comparing atlas images and radiographic images of the left hand, which is time-consuming and error-prone. To estimate bone age using deep neural network models, a lot of research has been done, our effort has been to improve the accuracy and speed of this process by using the introduced approach. After creating and analyzing our initial model, we focused on preprocessing and made the inputs smaller, and increased their quality. we selected small regions of hand radiographs and estimated the age of the bone only according to these regions. by doing this we improved bone age estimation accuracy even further than what was achieved in related works, without increasing the required computational resource. We reached a Mean Absolute Error (MAE) of 3.90 months in the range of 0-20 years and an MAE of 3.84 months in the range of 1-18 years on the RSNA test set.
title Hand bone age estimation using divide and conquer strategy and lightweight convolutional neural networks
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.14986