2019 年 36 巻 2 号 p. 72-76
Osteoporosis is known as one of the main diseases of bone. Although image diagnosis for osteoporosis is effective, there are concerns about increased burden of radiologists associated with diagnostic imaging, uneven diagnostic results due to experience difference, and undetected lesions. Therefore, in this study, we propose a diagnosis supporting method for classifying osteoporosis from phalanges computed radiography images and presenting classification results to physicians. In the proposed method, we construct classifiers using convolution neural network and classify normal cases and abnormal cases about osteoporosis. In our experiments, two kinds of CNN models were constructed using input images generated from 101 cases of CR images and evaluated using Area Under the Curve(AUC)value on Receiver Operating Characteristics(ROC)curve. Finaly, AUC of 0.995 was obtained.