Osteoarthritis Diagnosis: A Feature-Based Transfer Learning Approach

Abdulaziz Abdo Saif Salman, Omair Rashed Abdulwareth Almanifi, Muhammad Amirul Abdullah, Mohd Azraai Mohd Razman, Ahmad Fakhri Ahmad, Chenguang Liu, Eng Hwa Yap, Anwar P. P. Abdul Majeed*

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Osteoarthritis (OA) is a condition that causes the protective cartilage between two bones in joints to wear away. Consequently, more often than not, patients with OA experience joint discomfort, stiffness and limited flexibility, amongst other symptoms. It is worth noting that the conventional approach in diagnosing OA is rather labour-intensive and susceptible to misdiagnosis. Nevertheless, with the advancement of computer vision, automatic OA diagnostics is no longer a far cry. In this extended work, different feature-based transfer learning (TL) models, namely Resnet50, VGG16, and VGG19 are used to extract features from the X-ray images prior being fed into a Random Forest (RF) model to classify the different degrees of OA. It was demonstrated through the present study that the VGG16+RF pipeline yielded a better average in the validation and testing classification accuracy against the other evaluated pipelines, suggesting the efficacy of VGG16 as a feature extractor for OA based images.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationRobot Intelligence Technology and Applications 7 - Results from the 10th International Conference on Robot Intelligence Technology and Applications
EditorsJun Jo, Han-Lim Choi, Marde Helbig, Hyondong Oh, Jemin Hwangbo, Chang-Hun Lee, Bela Stantic
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages451-455
Number of pages5
ISBN (Print)9783031268885
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2023
Event10th International Conference on Robot Intelligence Technology and Applications, RiTA 2022 - Gold Coast, Australia
Duration: 7 Dec 20229 Dec 2022

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Networks and Systems
Volume642 LNNS
ISSN (Print)2367-3370
ISSN (Electronic)2367-3389

Conference

Conference10th International Conference on Robot Intelligence Technology and Applications, RiTA 2022
Country/TerritoryAustralia
CityGold Coast
Period7/12/229/12/22

Keywords

  • CNN
  • Ensemble
  • Feature extraction
  • Osteoarthritis
  • Random forest

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