A critical comparative study of the performance of three AI-assisted programs for bone age determination.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To date, AI-supported programs for bone age (BA) determination for medical use in Europe have almost only been validated separately, according to Greulich and Pyle (G&P). Therefore, the current study aimed to compare the performance of three programs, namely BoneXpert, PANDA, and BoneView, on a single Central European population.

Materials and methods

For this retrospective study, hand radiographs of 306 children aged 1-18 years, stratified by gender and age, were included. A subgroup consisting of the age group accounting for 90% of examinations in clinical practice was formed. The G&P BA was estimated by three human experts-as ground truth-and three AI-supported programs. The mean absolute deviation, the root mean squared error (RMSE), and dropouts by the AI wer

SUBMITTER: Pape J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11835896 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature