Validation of BoneXpert in India
Dr Anuradha V. Khadilkar’s research group in Pune, India, has published a study of BoneXpert bone age, reporting its accuracy and presenting reference curves for Indian children.
External validation of commercial AI products
Kicky van Leeuwen and the AIR Working Group of Radboud University (Nijmegen, the Netherlands) have performed an external validation of commercial AI systems for bone age and lung nodules.
BoneXpert knows its own limitation
A new paper documents BoneXpert’s accuracy and self-validation Read more “BoneXpert knows its own limitation”
New paper: How do radiologists use BoneXpert?
A questionnaire was sent out to 282 radiologists in Europe using BoneXpert.
The aim was to reveal to what extent radiologists have been replaced by BoneXpert when doing bone age assessment. The result of the survey has now been published as an open access article in Pediatric Radiology. The original questionnaire is in the supplementary information.
BoneXpert is accurate in Moroccan children
A study from Queen Fabiola Children’s University Hospital in Brussels on the accuracy of bone age has been published.
September 2020: New bone age reference curves from Taiwan
A new independent study has been published with bone age reference curves for healthy Taiwanese children.
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RSNA challenge boosts automated bone age ratings
RNSA (The Radiological Society of North America) organized a machine learning challenge in bone age rating in 2017. This article reviews the challenge and explains its crucial role in boosting performance of BoneXpert in terms of bone age ratings.
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Automated bone age extended up to 19 years
The upcoming release of BoneXpert version 2.4 (version 2.4.5.1, released Dec 28) extends the Greulich-Pyle bone age range up to 19 years for boys and 18 years for girls. Previous versions were less reliable in the bone age range 17-19 for boys and 15-18 for girls. The validation of this extension is reported in the International Journal of Legal Medicine.