Identification of Low Bone Mineral Density based on the Mandibular Cortex by Fuzzy Neural Network

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In this paper we present a fuzzy neural network system for diagnosing osteoporosis based on mandibular cortical width and shape measurement on dental panoramic radiographs. The system consists in partitioning the input space into a set of subspaces using a novel fuzzy thresholding we propose in this paper. The fuzzy inference system constructed from the partitioning step is then incorporated with multi layer perceptron (MLP) neural network. The sensitivity and specificity averages are 90.92% and 63.69%, respectively.