A New Opportunistic Bone Density Screening Method Based on Colored CT Images of the Spine

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Andrew Smith Elliot Varney

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Elliot Varney
Department of Radiology, University of Mississippi Medical Center, 2500 N State St., Jackson, MS 39216, USA

A B S T R A C T

More than 60 million computed tomography (CT) exams are performed annually in the United States that include bone density information. There is a need for a practical, passive, accurate, reproducible, and rapid method to perform opportunistic screening of abnormal spinal bone density on routine CT images obtained for other purposes. In this short communication, a novel colorization method to further utilize CT exams for opportunistic bone density screening is reviewed. The colors green and red are applied to rapidly and accurately differentiate normal from abnormal bone density. The study design, results, perspectives, limitations and conclusion of a recently published multi-reader retrospective study are presented.

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Short Communication

Publication history

Received: Wed 03, Apr 2019
Accepted: Mon 22, Apr 2019
Published: Fri 03, May 2019

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© 2023 Elliot Varney. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Hosting by Science Repository.
DOI: 10.31487/j.RDI.2019.02.02