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Computer-based automated analysis of X-ray and thermal imaging of knee region in evaluation of rheumatoid arthritis.
Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. Part H, Journal of Engineering in Medicine 2017 December
The aim and objectives of the study are as follows: (1) to perform automated segmentation of knee X-ray images using fast greedy snake algorithm and feature extraction using gray level co-occurrence matrix method, (2) to implement automated segmentation of knee thermal image using RGB segmentation method and (3) to compare the features extracted from the segmented knee region of X-ray and thermal images in rheumatoid arthritis patients using a biochemical method as standard. In all, 30 rheumatoid arthritis patients and 30 age- and sex-matched healthy volunteers were included in the study. X-ray and thermography images of knee regions were acquired, and biochemical tests were carried out subsequently. The X-ray images were segmented using fast greedy snake algorithm, and feature extractions were performed using gray level co-occurrence matrix method. The thermal image was segmented using RGB-based segmentation method and statistical features were extracted. Statistical features extracted after segmentation from X-ray and thermal imaging of knee region were correlated with the standard biochemical parameters. The erythrocyte sedimentation rate shows statistically significant correlations (p < 0.01) with the X-ray parameters such as joint space width and % combined cortical thickness. The skin surface temperature measured from knee region of thermal imaging was highly correlated with erythrocyte sedimentation rate. Among all the extracted features namely mean, variance, energy, homogeneity and difference entropy depict statistically significant percentage differences between the rheumatoid arthritis and healthy subjects. From this study, it was observed that thermal infrared imaging technique serves as a potential tool in the evaluation of rheumatoid arthritis at an earlier stage compared to radiography. Hence, it was predicted that thermal imaging method has a competency in the diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis by automated segmentation methods.
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