Abstract #2288

Development of an Automated Shape and Textural Software Model of the Paediatric Knee for Estimation of Skeletal Age.

Caron Parsons^1,2, Charles Hutchinson^1,2, Emma Helm², Alexander Kenneth Clarke³, Asfand Baig Mirza³, Qiang Zhang⁴, and Abhir Bhalerao⁴

¹Division of Health Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom, ²Department of Radiology, University Hospital Coventry & Warwickshire, Coventry, United Kingdom, ³Warwick Medical School, Coventry, United Kingdom, ⁴Department of Computer Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom

There are multiple methods available for skeletal age determination in the paediatric endocrine population. Only two methods, using left hand and wrist x-rays are in frequent clinical use, however Greulich & Pyle is based on data collated between 1931 and 1942 and Tanner Whitehouse uses data from as far back as 1949. We present the initial results of an automated software model of shape and textural analysis of the physes of the knee.

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