Classification of osteoporosis from phalanges CR images based on DCNN

Osteoporosis is known as a disease of bone. Visual screening using Computed Radiography (CR) images is an effective method for osteoporosis, however, there are many similar diseases that exhibit state of low bone mass. In this paper, we propose an automatic identification method of osteoporosis from phalanges CR images. In the proposed method, we implement a classifier based on Deep Convolutional Neural Network (DCNN), and identify unknown CR images as normal or abnormal. For training and evaluating of CNN, we use pseudo color images. In the experiment, we apply our proposal method to 101 cases and TPR of 64.7 [%] and FPR of 6.51 [%] were obtained.