Differentiation of Cartilage Repair Techniques Using Texture Analysis from T₂ Maps.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The aim of this study was to investigate texture features from T₂ maps as a marker for distinguishing the maturation of repair tissue after 2 different cartilage repair procedures.

Design

Seventy-nine patients, after either microfracture (MFX) or matrix-associated chondrocyte transplantation (MACT), were examined on a 3-T magnetic resonance (MR) scanner with morphological and quantitative (T₂ mapping) MR sequences 2 years after surgery. Twenty-one texture features from a gray-level co-occurrence matrix (GLCM) were extracted. The texture feature difference between 2 repair types was assessed individually for the femoral condyle and trochlea/anterior condyle using linear regression models. The stability and reproducibility of texture features fo

SUBMITTER: Juras V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8808785 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature