Yanjun Yu¹, Lei Yu^1,*, Huiqi Wang², Haodong Zheng¹, Yi Deng¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.78, No.2, pp. 2225-2243, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.047641 - 27 February 2024

Abstract Bone age assessment (BAA) helps doctors determine how a child’s bones grow and develop in clinical medicine. Traditional BAA methods rely on clinician expertise, leading to time-consuming predictions and inaccurate results. Most deep learning-based BAA methods feed the extracted critical points of images into the network by providing additional annotations. This operation is costly and subjective. To address these problems, we propose a multi-scale attentional densely connected network (MSADCN) in this paper. MSADCN constructs a multi-scale dense connectivity mechanism, which can avoid overfitting, obtain the local features effectively and prevent gradient vanishing even in limited… More >

Mesfer Al Duhayyim^1,*, Areej A. Malibari², Marwa Obayya³, Mohamed K. Nour⁴, Ahmed S. Salama⁵, Mohamed I. Eldesouki⁶, Abu Sarwar Zamani⁷, Mohammed Rizwanullah⁷

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.73, No.3, pp. 5473-5489, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.031976 - 28 July 2022

Abstract The skeletal bone age assessment (BAA) was extremely implemented in development prediction and auxiliary analysis of medicinal issues. X-ray images of hands were detected from the estimation of bone age, whereas the ossification centers of epiphysis and carpal bones are important regions. The typical skeletal BAA approaches remove these regions for predicting the bone age, however, few of them attain suitable efficacy or accuracy. Automatic BAA techniques with deep learning (DL) methods are reached the leading efficiency on manual and typical approaches. Therefore, this study introduces an intellectual skeletal bone age assessment and classification with… More >