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ArticleRadiology2017

Vertebral Body Compression Fractures and Bone Density: Automated Detection and Classification on CT Images.

Joseph E Burns, Jianhua Yao, Ronald M Summers

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Article in Radiology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 100 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

100 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  10. Romosozumab mitigates progression from radiological to symptomatic adjacent-level fractures compared to teriparatide.Osteoporosis international : a journal established as result of cooperation between the European Foundation for Osteoporosis and the National Osteoporosis Foundation of the USA · 2026
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  14. Diagnostic model for distinguishing fresh or old osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures based on modified computed tomography window: a retrospective cohort study.European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Joseph E BurnsFrom the Department of Radiological Sciences, University of California-Irvine School of Medicine, Orange, Calif (J.E.B.); and Imaging Biomarkers and Computer-Aided Detection Laboratory, Radiology and Imaging Sciences, National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, Building 10, Room 1C224, MSC1182, Bethesda, MD 20892-1182 (J.Y., R.M.S.).
Jianhua YaoFrom the Department of Radiological Sciences, University of California-Irvine School of Medicine, Orange, Calif (J.E.B.); and Imaging Biomarkers and Computer-Aided Detection Laboratory, Radiology and Imaging Sciences, National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, Building 10, Room 1C224, MSC1182, Bethesda, MD 20892-1182 (J.Y., R.M.S.).
Ronald M SummersFrom the Department of Radiological Sciences, University of California-Irvine School of Medicine, Orange, Calif (J.E.B.); and Imaging Biomarkers and Computer-Aided Detection Laboratory, Radiology and Imaging Sciences, National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, Building 10, Room 1C224, MSC1182, Bethesda, MD 20892-1182 (J.Y., R.M.S.).

Funding

Computer Aided Detection for Radiologic ImagesZ01CL040004 · CLC · CLINICAL CENTER · PI SUMMERS, RONALD M. · 2003 to 2008
$41k
Computer Aided Detection for Radiologic ImagesZIACL040004 · CLC · CLINICAL CENTER · PI SUMMERS, RONALD M. · 2009 to 2025
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Intramural NIH HHS Z01 CL040004
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Purpose To create and validate a computer system with which to detect, localize, and classify compression fractures and measure bone density of thoracic and lumbar vertebral bodies on computed tomographic (CT) images. Materials and Methods Institutional review board approval was obtained, and informed consent was waived in this HIPAA-compliant retrospective study. A CT study set of 150 patients (mean age, 73 years; age range, 55-96 years; 92 women, 58 men) with (n = 75) and without (n = 75) compression fractures was assembled. All case patients were age and sex matched with control subjects. A total of 210 thoracic and lumbar vertebrae showed compression fractures and were electronically marked and classified by a radiologist. Prototype fully automated spinal segmentation and fracture detection software were then used to analyze the study set. System performance was evaluated with free-response receiver operating characteristic analysis. Results Sensitivity for detection or localization of compression fractures was 95.7% (201 of 210; 95% confidence interval [CI]: 87.0%, 98.9%), with a false-positive rate of 0.29 per patient. Additionally, sensitivity was 98.7% and specificity was 77.3% at case-based receiver operating characteristic curve analysis. Accuracy for classification by Genant type (anterior, middle, or posterior height loss) was 0.95 (107 of 113; 95% CI: 0.89, 0.98), with weighted κ of 0.90 (95% CI: 0.81, 0.99). Accuracy for categorization by Genant height loss grade was 0.68 (77 of 113; 95% CI: 0.59, 0.76), with a weighted κ of 0.59 (95% CI: 0.47, 0.71). The average bone attenuation for T12-L4 vertebrae was 146 HU ± 29 (standard deviation) in case patients and 173 HU ± 42 in control patients; this difference was statistically significant (P < .001). Conclusion An automated machine learning computer system was created to detect, anatomically localize, and categorize vertebral compression fractures at high sensitivity and with a low false-positive rate, as well as to calculate vertebral bone density, on CT images.

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AgedAged, 80 and overBone DensityFemaleFractures, CompressionHumansLumbar VertebraeMaleMiddle AgedRadiographic Image Interpretation, Computer-AssistedRetrospective StudiesSensitivity and SpecificitySpinal FracturesThoracic VertebraeTomography, X-Ray Computed

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PMID28301777
PMCPMC5584647

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