Artificial intelligence system can achieve comparable results to experts for bone age assessment of Chinese children with abnormal growth and development.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Bone age (BA) is a crucial indicator for revealing the growth and development of children. This study tested the performance of a fully automated artificial intelligence (AI) system for BA assessment of Chinese children with abnormal growth and development.

Materials and methods

A fully automated AI system based on the Greulich and Pyle (GP) method was developed for Chinese children by using 8,000 BA radiographs from five medical centers nationwide in China. Then, a total of 745 cases (360 boys and 385 girls) with abnormal growth and development from another tertiary medical center of north China were consecutively collected between January and October 2018 to test the system. The reference standard was defined as the result interpreted by two experienced reviewers

SUBMITTER: Wang F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7127473 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature