Opportunistic Screening of Osteoporosis Using Plain Film Chest X-Ray

Fakai Wang*, Kang Zheng, Yirui Wang, Xiaoyun Zhou, Le Lu, Jing Xiao, Min Wu, Chang Fu Kuo, Shun Miao

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Abstract

Osteoporosis is a common chronic metabolic bone disease that is often under-diagnosed and under-treated due to the limited access to bone mineral density (BMD) examinations, e.g., Dual-energy X-ray Absorptiometry (DXA). In this paper, we propose a method to predict BMD from Chest X-ray (CXR), one of the most common, accessible and low-cost medical image examinations. Our method first automatically detects Regions of Interest (ROIs) of local and global bone structures from the CXR. Then a multi-ROI model is developed to exploit both local and global information in the chest X-ray image for accurate BMD estimation. Our method is evaluated on 1651 CXR cases with ground truth BMD measured by gold standard DXA. The model predicted BMD has a strong correlation with the ground truth (Pearson correlation coefficient 0.853). When applied for osteoporosis screening, it achieves a high classification performance (AUC 0.928). As the first effort in the field using CXR scans to predict the BMD, the proposed algorithm holds a strong potential in early osteoporosis screening and public health promotion.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationPredictive Intelligence in Medicine - 4th International Workshop, PRIME 2021, Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2021, Proceedings
EditorsIslem Rekik, Ehsan Adeli, Sang Hyun Park, Julia Schnabel
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages138-146
Number of pages9
ISBN (Print)9783030876012
DOIs
StatePublished - 2021
Event4th International Workshop on Predictive Intelligence in Medicine, PRIME 2021, held in conjunction with 24th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2021 - Virtual, Online
Duration: 01 10 202101 10 2021

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume12928 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference4th International Workshop on Predictive Intelligence in Medicine, PRIME 2021, held in conjunction with 24th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2021
CityVirtual, Online
Period01/10/2101/10/21

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Keywords

  • Bone mineral density estimation
  • Chest X-ray
  • Multi-ROI model

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