دورية أكاديمية

Bone age assessment with various machine learning techniques: A systematic literature review and meta-analysis.

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: Bone age assessment with various machine learning techniques: A systematic literature review and meta-analysis.
المؤلفون: Ana Luiza Dallora, Peter Anderberg, Ola Kvist, Emilia Mendes, Sandra Diaz Ruiz, Johan Sanmartin Berglund
المصدر: PLoS ONE, Vol 14, Iss 7, p e0220242 (2019)
بيانات النشر: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2019.
سنة النشر: 2019
المجموعة: LCC:Medicine
LCC:Science
مصطلحات موضوعية: Medicine, Science
الوصف: BackgroundThe assessment of bone age and skeletal maturity and its comparison to chronological age is an important task in the medical environment for the diagnosis of pediatric endocrinology, orthodontics and orthopedic disorders, and legal environment in what concerns if an individual is a minor or not when there is a lack of documents. Being a time-consuming activity that can be prone to inter- and intra-rater variability, the use of methods which can automate it, like Machine Learning techniques, is of value.ObjectiveThe goal of this paper is to present the state of the art evidence, trends and gaps in the research related to bone age assessment studies that make use of Machine Learning techniques.MethodA systematic literature review was carried out, starting with the writing of the protocol, followed by searches on three databases: Pubmed, Scopus and Web of Science to identify the relevant evidence related to bone age assessment using Machine Learning techniques. One round of backward snowballing was performed to find additional studies. A quality assessment was performed on the selected studies to check for bias and low quality studies, which were removed. Data was extracted from the included studies to build summary tables. Lastly, a meta-analysis was performed on the performances of the selected studies.Results26 studies constituted the final set of included studies. Most of them proposed automatic systems for bone age assessment and investigated methods for bone age assessment based on hand and wrist radiographs. The samples used in the studies were mostly comprehensive or bordered the age of 18, and the data origin was in most of cases from United States and West Europe. Few studies explored ethnic differences.ConclusionsThere is a clear focus of the research on bone age assessment methods based on radiographs whilst other types of medical imaging without radiation exposure (e.g. magnetic resonance imaging) are not much explored in the literature. Also, socioeconomic and other aspects that could influence in bone age were not addressed in the literature. Finally, studies that make use of more than one region of interest for bone age assessment are scarce.
نوع الوثيقة: article
وصف الملف: electronic resource
اللغة: English
تدمد: 1932-6203
Relation: https://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0220242
URL الوصول: https://doaj.org/article/f9453dd3d7564ac3965ff7e653c344ee
رقم الأكسشن: edsdoj.f9453dd3d7564ac3965ff7e653c344ee
قاعدة البيانات: Directory of Open Access Journals
الوصف
تدمد:19326203
DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0220242