Improving the detection of osteoporosis from dental radiographs using Active Appearance Models

M. G. Roberts, J. Graham, H. Devlin

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    Abstract

    We describe improvements to a method of detecting patients at risk of osteoporosis from automatic measurement of the inferior mandibular cortex on panoramic dental tomograms. Previous work had used an Active Shape Model (ASM) to locate the mandibular edges. However, the edge-based ASM has little lateral positioning information and in osteoporotic cases the superior border is often poorly defined. These problems can degrade the accuracy of the measurements of cortical width. We have obtained superior accuracy using an Active Appearance Model incorporating a complex texture model derived from an osteoporotic- enriched training set. This leads to improvements in diagnostic accuracy, when applied to a large dataset of 663 subjects with known Bone Mineral Density. © 2010 IEEE.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publication2010 7th IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro, ISBI 2010 - Proceedings|IEEE Int. Symp. Biomed. Imaging: Nano Macro, ISBI - Proc.
    PublisherIEEE
    Pages440-443
    Number of pages3
    ISBN (Print)9781424441266
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2010
    Event7th IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro, ISBI 2010 - Rotterdam
    Duration: 1 Jul 2010 → …

    Conference

    Conference7th IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro, ISBI 2010
    CityRotterdam
    Period1/07/10 → …

    Keywords

    • Active Appearance Model
    • Active Shape Model
    • Dental radiographs
    • Image segmentation
    • Osteoporosis

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