Personalised 3D Assessment of Trochanteric Soft Tissues Improves HIP Fracture Classification Accuracy.

ABSTRACT: Passive soft tissues surrounding the trochanteric region attenuate fall impact forces and thereby control hip fracture risk. The degree of attenuation is related to Soft Tissue Thickness (STT). STT at the neutral hip impact orientation, estimated using a regression relation in body mass index (BMI), was previously shown to influence the current absolute risk of hip fracture (ARF0) and its fracture classification accuracy. The present study investigates whether fracture classification using ARF0 improves when STT is determined from the subject's Computed-Tomography (CT) scans (i.e. personalised) in an orientation-specific (i.e. 3D) manner. STT is calculated as the shortest distance along any impact orientation between a semi-automatically segmented femur surface and an automatically segment

SUBMITTER: Aldieri A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8847196 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature