Evaluation of osteoporosis in X-ray CT examination: A preliminary study for an automatic recognition algorithm for the central part of a vertebral body using abdominal X-ray CT images
✍ Scribed by Sadamitsu Nishihara; Hiroshi Fujita; Tadayuki Iida; Atsushi Takigawa; Takeshi Hara; Xiangrong Zhou
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2005
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 191 KB
- Volume
- 29
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0895-6111
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✦ Synopsis
We have developed an algorithm that can distinguish the central part of the vertebral body from abdominal X-ray CT images to determine whether it is possible to aid a diagnosis of osteoporosis. We classified three measures for the principal component analysis and linear discriminant function. When we judged whether patients had osteoporosis or not, the ratio usable for diagnosing osteoporosis (sensitivity) was 1.00 (15/15), and for diagnosing as normal (specificity) was 0.64 (7/11). We believe that this algorithm can be used to aid in diagnosing osteoporosis, utilizing the measures obtained from the CT images.