Olecranon bone age assessment in puberty using a lateral elbow radiograph and a deep-learning model

ConclusionThe olecranon BA evaluation for puberty, requiring only a lateral elbow radiograph, showed the highest applicability and interobserver agreement, and excellent reliability with other BA evaluation methods, along with a high performance of the AI model.Clinical relevance statementThis AI model uses a single lateral elbow radiograph to determine bone age for puberty from the olecranon ossification center and can improve pubertal bone age assessment with the highest applicability and excellent reliability compared to previous methods.Key PointsElbow bone age is valuable for pubertal bone age assessment, but conventional methods have limitations.Olecranon bone age and its AI model showed high performances for pubertal bone age assessment.Olecranon bone age system is practical and accurate while requiring only a single lateral elbow radiograph.
Source: European Radiology - Category: Radiology Source Type: research