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Automatic Knee Osteoarthritis Stages Identification

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Osteoarthritis (OA) is a type of chronic bone joint disorder. Patients may suffer from heavy pain while performing day to day activities. By confirming the description of the Osteoarthritis Initiative (OAI) nowadays, not only older but also younger people are also suffering from knee OA. The early diagnosis and prognosis of OA are necessary to reduce the pains. Manual detection and accurate severity level identification from an X-ray image is a complicated and requires experienced knowledgeable person. Radiographer and expert orthopedic surgeons spend a lot of time to decide the exact OA grade. To reduce expert’s effects and to predict exact OA severity grade we have developed a deep neural network (DNN) based Computer-aided detection (CAD) system for knee OA classification which precisely identifies the severity level.

The proposed CAD system works in stages. Initially, an innovative column sum-based histogram modeling function is devised to separate the left and right knee from X-ray image. Later DNN-based five-class classification is applied to identify the severity grade. To achieve this, we have developed our own convolutional neural network named OACnet (Osteoarthritis classification network) which follows Kellgren & Lawrence (K&L) knee OA grading system. On OAI database (9,492 knee X-ray images of various severity grades) our system yields 81.41% result.

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Navale, D.I., Ruikar, D.D., Sawat, D.D., Kamble, P., Houde, K.V., Hegadi, R.S. (2022). Automatic Knee Osteoarthritis Stages Identification. In: Santosh, K., Hegadi, R., Pal, U. (eds) Recent Trends in Image Processing and Pattern Recognition. RTIP2R 2021. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1576. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-07005-1_6

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