Infant bone age estimation based on fibular shaft length: model development and clinical validation

Pediatric Radiology

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 342-356

  Tsai, Andy ^a   Stamoulis, Catherine ^a   Bixby, Sarah D ^a   Breen, Micheál A ^a   Connolly, Susan A ^a   Kleinman, Paul K ^a  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Bone age; Children; Elgenmark; Fibula; Greulich and Pyle atlas; Pyle and Hoerr; Radiography; Sontag

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BONE AGE; BONE DEVELOPMENT; BONE LENGTH; BONE RADIOGRAPHY; CHILD PROTECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FIBULA; HAND; HUMAN; INFANT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KNEE; LOW RISK POPULATION; MALE; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; METAPHYSIS; MODEL; NORMAL HUMAN; PEDIATRIC RADIOLOGIST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; VALIDATION STUDY; WRIST; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BONE AGE DETERMINATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EVALUATION STUDY; NEWBORN; OBSERVER VARIATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

AGE DETERMINATION BY SKELETON; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; FIBULA; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OBSERVER VARIATION; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD;

EID: 84959164984     PISSN: 03010449     EISSN: 14321998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00247-015-3480-z     Document Type: Article

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