Bone-age assessment workstation software

骨龄评估工作站软件

• 批准号: 6703987
• 负责人: JEFFREY W DURYEA
• 金额: $ 12.98万
• 依托单位: BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-09-30 至 2005-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6703987
• 关键词: bone development; bone imaging /visualization /scanning; clinical research; computer graphics /printing; computer human interaction; computer program /software; computer system design /evaluation; digital imaging; hand; human data; mathematics; morphometry; radiography

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Radiographic bone-age assessment is widely used as a tool in clinical practice and for research studies. With the traditional atlas-based method, a trained reader performs bone-age scoring by viewing a juvenile hand radiograph on a back-illuminated viewing box. The reader systematically compares regions of interest (ROI's) on the radiograph to images and written descriptions in an atlas that represent different stages of bone growth. For each ROI, the reader assigns a score for the stage that best matches the atlas. Atlas-based bone-age assessment suffers from several difficulties and inconveniences that can increase the time and cost of the readings and that compromise the precision and accuracy of the method. The possibility of recording errors also exists since the reader must enter the scores to a data sheet by hand. We propose to develop a computer graphical user interface (GUI) tool to perform Tanner-Whitehouse (TW2) bone-age assessment. The images and written description from the Tanner atlas will be put into a computer database and displayed on the monitor along with the digitized hand radiograph to be evaluated. The GUI tool will have image adjustment tools and software will be developed to create automatically the ROI's for the evaluation image. Once the reader is satisfied with a score, it can be automatically put into a scoring database and retrieved for analysis at a later time. This system will be more convenient and less costly than the traditional TW2 scoring and we also hypothesize that the precision will be improved. Since it will be developed for the Windows operating system, it can be made widely available to other researchers and clinicians.

描述（由申请人提供）： 放射线骨龄评估广泛用作临床实践和研究的工具。使用传统的基于图谱的方法，训练有素的读者通过在背照式观察盒上观察青少年手部射线照片来进行骨龄评分。读者系统地将射线照片上的感兴趣区域 (ROI) 与代表骨骼生长不同阶段的图集中的图像和书面描述进行比较。对于每个 ROI，读者会为与图集最匹配的阶段分配一个分数。 基于图谱的骨龄评估存在一些困难和不便，这些困难和不便可能会增加读数的时间和成本，并损害该方法的精度和准确度。由于读者必须手动将分数输入数据表，因此也存在记录错误的可能性。 我们建议开发一种计算机图形用户界面 (GUI) 工具来执行 Tanner-Whitehouse (TW2) 骨龄评估。坦纳地图集中的图像和书面描述将被输入计算机数据库，并与要评估的数字化手部射线照片一起显示在监视器上。 GUI 工具将具有图像调整工具，并且将开发软件来自动创建评估图像的 ROI。一旦读者对分数感到满意，它就可以自动放入评分数据库并在以后检索进行分析。 该系统将比传统的 TW2 评分更方便、成本更低，并且我们还假设精度将会提高。由于它将针对 Windows 操作系统开发，因此可以广泛供其他研究人员和临床医生使用。