Clinical fracture risk evaluated by hierarchical agglomerative clustering

ConclusionsUnsupervised HAC presents a novel technology to improve patient characteristics in bone disease beyond traditional T-score-based diagnosis. Technological and validation limitations need to be overcome to improve its use in internal medicine. Current DXA scan indication guidelines could be further improved by clustering algorithms.

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Source: Osteoporosis International - November 15, 2016 Category: Orthopaedics Source Type: research