#Definition chronological age series#

This allows level A to locate each bone and reject it, if it is not in accordance with the model. It is a combination of supervised and unsupervised machine learning, which has learned to locate landmarks on the bones and learned the allowed shape of each bone. In Layer A, the borders of the bones are found using a sophisticated algorithm developed by machine learning. The image analysis of the 21 bones is divided into three layers (this figure is from the first BoneXpert publication from 2009 - at that time only 13 bones were analysed, but the architecture is the same today) Carpal bone age is usually not determined for boys with bone age above 12 y and for girls with bone age above 10 y, because the carpals develop very little above these bone ages. Thus the carpal bone age is not 'mixed into' the overall bone age. In addition, the seven carpals are considered, and a carpal bone age is computed for the group of all visible carpals. These are used for the overall bone age formed as a simple average over these 21 bones. Both left and right hands are accepted.īoneXpert analyses the following 21 bones: Radius, ulna, metacarpals, and phalanges.

#Definition chronological age series#

The following illustrations show a series of images from the first Zurich Longitudinal Study (courtesy of Zurich Univ) show annual X-rays of the same bone.īoneXpert analyses the image completely automatically, independently of the rotation of the hand. Girls on the other hand have menarche at bone age 13.2 years, on average. The growth spurt of boys occurs on average at 14.2 years of bone age. the most advanced boy hits puberty 3 years before the least advanced. This implies that in a random group of 7 boys of the same age, there is on average 3 years difference between the most and the least mature boy. The standard deviation of bone age at a given age is approx. Therefore, the average bone age of 10-year-old children is approx. 2-4 months later than the very healthy children studied by Greulich and Pyle.

Present-day Western-European children mature approx. For instance, healthy children mature faster than children living under poor conditions. If a child has bone age 10 years, it means that the child maturation is as advanced as the average of the 10-year old children from Ohio in 1930-1940 that Greulich and Pyle studied.ĭifferent population groups mature at different speeds. late menarche.īone age is measured in years, most often using the Greulich-Pyle scale. So a child with delayed skeletal maturity is also likely to have puberty late, e.g. Hormones control skeletal maturation, and the same hormones also govern the timing of puberty. Conventionally this is determined from an X-ray image of the hand. how far the child has advanced in its development of the skeleton.

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