ArticleThe British journal of radiology2021
Performance of an artificial intelligence system for bone age assessment in Tibet.
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- Potential of Artificial Intelligence for Bone Age Assessment in Iranian Children and Adolescents: An Exploratory Study.Archives of Iranian medicine · 2025Article
- Validation of an AI-Powered Automated X-ray Bone Age Analyzer in Chinese Children and Adolescents: A Comparison with the Tanner-Whitehouse 3 Method.Advances in therapy · 2024Article
- An artificial intelligence-based bone age assessment model for Han and Tibetan children.Frontiers in physiology · 2024Article
- Effect of AI-assisted software on inter- and intra-observer variability for the X-ray bone age assessment of preschool children.BMC pediatrics · 2022Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo investigate whether bone age (BA) of children living in Tibet Highland could be accurately assessed using a fully automated artificial intelligence (AI) system. METHODS：: Left hand radiographs of 385 children (300 Tibetan and 85 immigrant Han) aged 4-18 years who presented to the largest medical center of Tibet between September 2013 and November 2019 were consecutively collected. From these radiographs, BA was determined using the Greulich and Pyle (GP) method by experts in a consensus manner; furthermore, BA was estimated by a previously reported artificial intelligence (AI) BA system based on Han children from southern China. The performance of the AI system was compared with that of experts by using statistical analysis.
resultsCompared with the experts' results, the accuracy of the AI system for Tibetan and Han children within 1 year was 84.67 and 89.41%, respectively, and its mean absolute difference (MAD) was 0.65 and 0.56 years, respectively. The discrepancy in hand-wrist bone maturation was the main cause of low accuracy of the system in the 4- to 6-year-old group.
conclusionThe AI BA system developed for Han Chinese children living in flat regions could enable to assess BA accurately in Tibet where medical resources are limited. ADVANCES IN KNOWLEDGE: AI-based BA system may serve as an effective and efficient solution to assess BA in Tibet.
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