Located in Crosshouse, near Kilmarnock in Scotland, University Hospital Crosshouse is a teaching hospital and the largest facility within NHS Ayrshire & Arran, serving a wide region. In 2023, the hospital adopted BoneXpert, an automated software solution for bone age analysis, to address workflow inefficiencies and improve diagnostic accuracy. As highlighted in the article by the Crosshouse Children’s Fund:
We might be crossing a line these days, as AI is not only taking over some of the radiologists’ work, but also taking over talking about it.
Listen to a podcast, which was generated autonomously by Google NotebookLM, from the pdf of the latest paper on the BoneXpert method for autonomous bone age determination.
The podcast is surprisingly good at summarising the general aspects, but for an exact account of the accuracy, please consult the paper.
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.
New results on Bone Health Index reference curves for 12 populations spanning Asia, Africa, Europe, and North America were presented at the recent International Conference on Children’s Bone Health in Salzburg.
At the European Society of Paediatric Radiology (ESPR) conference held in Sevilla in June 2024, Karen Rosendahl of Tromsø (awarded the ESPR 2024 Gold Medal) gave a talk titled “Revisiting Osteopenia.”
Read more “Hand radiographs as a potential replacement for DXA in osteopenia screening”
Auckland Radiology Group – Auckland’s largest independent radiology provider – has become the first private radiology clinic in New Zealand to adopt BoneXpert’s AI software-based medical device for automated bone age and adult height prediction.
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.
Visiana welcomes Ruby Hall Clinic as a BoneXpert customer. Ruby Hall Clinic is a flagship hospital in Pune, India, providing healthcare through a system of 3 hospitals and 24 diagnostic centres.
Read more “Ruby Hall Clinic uses BoneXpert software”
In a new, open access paper in European Radiology, Kicky van Leeuwen and a team from Nijmegen surveyed which AIs are actually used in radiology departments in the Netherlands in 2022.
Bone Health Index is significantly lower in children with vertebral fractures than in children without.