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Urschler, M; Grassegger, S; Štern, D.
What automated age estimation of hand and wrist MRI data tells us about skeletal maturation in male adolescents.
Ann Hum Biol. 2015; 42(4):358-367 Doi: 10.3109/03014460.2015.1043945
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Leading authors Med Uni Graz: Urschler Martin
Co-authors Med Uni Graz: Grassegger Sabine; Stern Darko
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Abstract:: Age estimation of individuals is important in human biology and has various medical and forensic applications. Recent interest in MR-based methods aims to investigate alternatives for established methods involving ionising radiation. Automatic, software-based methods additionally promise improved estimation objectivity. To investigate how informative automatically selected image features are regarding their ability to discriminate age, by exploring a recently proposed software-based age estimation method for MR images of the left hand and wrist. One hundred and two MR datasets of left hand images are used to evaluate age estimation performance, consisting of bone and epiphyseal gap volume localisation, computation of one age regression model per bone mapping image features to age and fusion of individual bone age predictions to a final age estimate. Quantitative results of the software-based method show an age estimation performance with a mean absolute difference of 0.85 years (SD = 0.58 years) to chronological age, as determined by a cross-validation experiment. Qualitatively, it is demonstrated how feature selection works and which image features of skeletal maturation are automatically chosen to model the non-linear regression function. Feasibility of automatic age estimation based on MRI data is shown and selected image features are found to be informative for describing anatomical changes during physical maturation in male adolescents.
Find related publications in this database (using NLM MeSH Indexing): Adolescent -; Age Determination by Skeleton - methods; Age Determination by Skeleton -; Hand - growth & development; Humans -; Machine Learning -; Magnetic Resonance Imaging -; Male -; Software -; Wrist - growth & development; Young Adult -
Find related publications in this database (Keywords): Automatic software; forensic age estimation; hand and wrist; MRI