Title
Bone age assessment using support vector regression with smart class mapping
Abstract
Bone age assessment on hand radiographs is a frequently and time consuming task to determine growth disturbances in human body. Recently, an automatic processing pipeline, combining content-based image retrieval and support vector regression (SVR), has been developed. This approach was evaluated based on 1,097 radiographs from the University of Southern California. Discretization of SVR continuous prediction to age classes has been done by (i) truncation. In this paper, we apply novel approaches in mapping of SVR continuous output values: (ii) rounding, where 0.5 is added to the values before truncation; (iii) curve, where a linear mapping curve is applied between the age classes, and (iv) age, where artificial age classes are not used at all. We evaluate these methods on the age range of 0-18 years, and 2-17 years for comparison with the commercial product BoneXpert that is using an active shape approach. Our methods reach root-mean-square (RMS) errors of 0.80, 0.76 and 0.73 years, respectively, which is slightly below the performance of the BoneXpert.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1117/12.2008029
Proceedings of SPIE
Keywords
Field
DocType
Bone Age Assessment,Support Vector Regression,Classification,Cross Correlation,Prototypes
Cross-correlation,Data mining,Truncation,Discretization,Image retrieval,Artificial intelligence,Computer vision,Pattern recognition,Support vector machine,Rounding,Linear map,Content-based image retrieval,Physics
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
8670
0277-786X
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.39
0
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Daniel Haak1406.52
Jing Yu212320.30
hendrik simon320.39
Hauke Schramm414219.94
Thomas Seidl53515544.45
Thomas M Deserno635833.79