Relationship between medial meniscus extrusion and cartilage measurements in the knee by fully automatic three-dimensional MRI analysis

• Published in: BMC musculoskeletal disorders Vol. 21; no. 1; pp. 742 - 9
• Main Authors: Aoki, Hayato, Ozeki, Nobutake, Katano, Hisako, Hyodo, Akinobu, Miura, Yugo, Matsuda, Junpei, Takanashi, Kimiko, Suzuki, Kenji, Masumoto, Jun, Okanouchi, Noriya, Fujiwara, Takeo, Sekiya, Ichiro
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England BioMed Central Ltd 12.11.2020; BioMed Central; BMC
• Subjects: 3D MRI; Adult; Aged; Arthritis; Cartilage; Cartilage, Articular - diagnostic imaging; CNN; Computer programs; Cross-Sectional Studies; Female; Femur; Humans; Image processing; Imaging, Three-Dimensional; Knee; Knee Joint - diagnostic imaging; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Male; Medical diagnostic software; Medical examination; Menisci, Tibial - diagnostic imaging; Meniscus; Meniscus (Anatomy); Methods; Middle Aged; Musculoskeletal diseases; Neural networks; Osteoarthritis, Knee; Segmentation; Software; Three-dimensional imaging; U-net; Japan; 3D MRI; Cartilage; CNN; Meniscus; U-net

We developed a fully automatic three-dimensional knee MRI analysis software that can quantify meniscus extrusion and cartilage measurements, including the projected cartilage area ratio (PCAR), which represents the ratio of the subject's actual cartilage area to their ideal cartilage area. We a...