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ArticleCurrent medical imaging2025

Accuracy and Reliability of Multimodal Imaging in Diagnosing Knee Sports Injuries

Di Zhu, Zitong Zhang, Wenji Li

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Di ZhuSports College, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250000, Shandong, China.
Zitong ZhangSports College, Shinhan University, Gyeonggi-do 11626, South Korea.
Wenji LiSports College, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250000, Shandong, China.

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backgroundDue to differences in subjective experience and professional level among doctors, as well as inconsistent diagnostic criteria, there are issues with the accuracy and reliability of single imaging diagnosis results for knee joint injuries.

objectiveTo address these issues, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), computed tomography (CT) and ultrasound (US) are adopted in this article for ensemble learning, and deep learning (DL) is combined for automatic analysis.

methodsBy steps such as image enhancement, noise elimination, and tissue segmentation, the quality of image data is improved, and then convolutional neural networks (CNN) are used to automatically identify and classify injury types. The experimental results show that the DL model exhibits high sensitivity and specificity in the diagnosis of different types of injuries, such as anterior cruciate ligament tear, meniscus injury, cartilage injury, and fracture.

resultsThe diagnostic accuracy of anterior cruciate ligament tear exceeds 90%, and the highest diagnostic accuracy of cartilage injury reaches 95.80%. In addition, compared with traditional manual image interpretation, the DL model has significant advantages in time efficiency, with a significant reduction in average interpretation time per case. The diagnostic consistency experiment shows that the DL model has high consistency with doctors' diagnosis results, with an overall error rate of less than 2%.

conclusionThe model has high accuracy and strong generalization ability when dealing with different types of joint injuries. These data indicate that combining multiple imaging technologies and the DL algorithm can effectively improve the accuracy and efficiency of diagnosing sports injuries of knee joints.

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Athletic InjuriesKnee InjuriesMultimodal ImagingAnterior Cruciate Ligament InjuriesDeep LearningHumansMagnetic Resonance ImagingMaleNeural Networks, ComputerReproducibility of ResultsSensitivity and SpecificityTomography, X-Ray ComputedUltrasonographyConvolutional neural networksDeep learningMagnetic resonance imaging.Medical imageSports injuries of knee joints

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