Diagnosis of osteoarthritis and prognosis of tibial cartilage loss by quantification of tibia trabecular bone from MRI

Joselene Marques, Harry K. Genant, Martin Lillholm, Erik Bjørnager Dam

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Abstract

A longitudinal study was used to investigate the quantification
of osteoarthritis and prediction of tibial cartilage loss by analysis of the tibia trabecular bone from magnetic resonance images of knees. The Kellgren Lawrence (KL) grades were
determined by radiologists and the levels of cartilage loss were assessed by a segmentation process. Aiming to quantify and potentially capture the structure of the trabecular bone anatomy, a machine learning approach used a set of texture features for training a classifier to recognize the trabecular bone of a knee with radiographic osteoarthritis. Using crossvalidation, the bone structure marker was used to estimate for each knee both the probability of having radiographic osteoarthritis (KL >1) and the probability of rapid cartilage volume loss. The diagnostic ability reached a median area under the receiver-operator-characteristics curve of 0.92 (P < 0.0001), and the prognosis had odds ratio of 3.9 (95% confidence interval: 2.4–6.5). The medians of cartilage loss of the subjects classified as slow and rapid progressors were 1.1% and 4.9% per year, respectively. A preliminary radiological reading of the high and low risk knees put forward an hypothesis of which pathologies the bone marker could be capturing to define the prognosis of cartilage loss. Magn Reson Med 000:000–000, 2012. VC 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
OriginalsprogEngelsk
TidsskriftMagnetic Resonance in Medicine
Vol/bind70
Udgave nummer2
Sider (fra-til)568-575
Antal sider8
ISSN0740-3194
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 2013

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