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Article type: Research Article
Authors: Nazia Fathima, S.M.a; * | Tamilselvi, R.a | Parisa Beham, M.a | Sabarinathan, D.b
Affiliations: [a] Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Sethu Institute of Technology, Kariapatti, Tamilnadu, India | [b] Couger Inc., Tokyo, Japan
Correspondence: [*] Corresponding author: S.M. Nazia Fathima, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Sethu Institute of Technology, Kariapatti - 626115, Tamilnadu, India. E-mail: naziafathimasm@gmail.com.
Abstract: BACKGROUND:Osteoporosis, a silent killing disease of fracture risk, is normally determined based on the bone mineral density (BMD) and T-score values measured in bone. However, development of standard algorithms for accurate segmentation and BMD measurement from X-ray images is a challenge in the medical field. OBJECTIVE:The purpose of this work is to more accurately measure BMD from X-ray images, which can overcome the limitations of the current standard technique to measure BMD using Dual Energy X-ray Absorptiometry (DEXA) such as non-availability and inaccessibility of DEXA machines in developing countries. In addition, this work also attempts to analyze the DEXA scan images for better segmentation and measurement of BMD. METHODS:This work employs a modified U-Net with Attention unit for accurate segmentation of bone region from X-Ray and DEXA images. A linear regression model is developed to compute BMD and T-score. Based on the value of T-score, the images are then classified as normal, osteopenia or osteoporosis. RESULTS:The proposed network is experimented with the two internally collected datasets namely, DEXSIT and XSITRAY, comprised of DEXA and X-ray images, respectively. The proposed method achieved an accuracy of 88% on both datasets. The Dice score on DEXSIT and XSITRAY is 0.94 and 0.92, respectively. CONCLUSION:Our modified U-Net with attention unit achieves significantly higher results in terms of Dice score and classification accuracy. The computed BMD and T-score values of the proposed method are also compared with the respective clinical reports for validation. Hence, using the digitized X-Ray images can be used to detect osteoporosis efficiently and accurately.
Keywords: Osteoporosis, bone mineral density (BMD), dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DEXA), deep learning, attention unit, U-net, Dice value, and T-Score
DOI: 10.3233/XST-200692
Journal: Journal of X-Ray Science and Technology, vol. 28, no. 5, pp. 953-973, 2020
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