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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF LEGAL MEDICINE
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DOI: 10.1007/s00414-023-03148-1
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Age determination by skeleton; Magnetic resonance imaging; Knee; Deep learning; Machine learning
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This study developed and evaluated a deep learning radiomics method for noninvasive and automatic bone age assessment based on multiparametric knee MRI. The results showed that the 3D CNN model achieved the lowest mean absolute error in age estimation compared to other MRI modalities and traditional machine learning models.
Bone age assessment (BAA) is a crucial task in clinical, forensic, and athletic fields. Since traditional age estimation methods are suffered from potential radiation damage, this study aimed to develop and evaluate a deep learning radiomics method based on multiparametric knee MRI for noninvasive and automatic BAA. This retrospective study enrolled 598 patients (age range,10.00-29.99 years) who underwent MR examinations of the knee joint (T1/T2*/PD-weighted imaging). Three-dimensional convolutional neural networks (3D CNNs) were trained to extract and fuse multimodal and multiscale MRI radiomic features for age estimation and compared to traditional machine learning models based on hand-crafted features. The age estimation error was greater in individuals aged 25-30 years; thus, this method may not be suitable for individuals over 25 years old. In the test set aged 10-25 years (n = 95), the 3D CNN (a fusion of T1WI, T2*WI, and PDWI) demonstrated the lowest mean absolute error of 1.32 +/- 1.01 years, which is higher than that of other MRI modalities and the hand-crafted models. In the classification for 12-, 14-, 16-, and 18- year thresholds, accuracies and the areas under the ROC curves were all over 0.91 and 0.96, which is similar to the manual methods. Visualization of important features showed that 3D CNN estimated age by focusing on the epiphyseal plates. The deep learning radiomics method enables non-invasive and automated BAA from multimodal knee MR images. The use of 3D CNN and MRI-based radiomics has the potential to assist radiologists or medicolegists in age estimation.
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