Periapical Radiograph Texture Features for Osteoporosis Detection using Deep Convolutional Neural Network

Abstract

Currently, research for osteoporosis examination using dental radiographic images is increasing rapidly. Many researchers have used various methods from subject data. It indicates that osteoporosis has become a widespread disease that should be studied more deeply. This study proposes a deep Convolutional Neural Network architecture as a texture feature of dental periapical radiograph for osteoporosis detection. The subject of this study is postmenopausal Javanese women aged over 40 and data measurement result of Bone Mineral Density. The proposed model is divided into stages: 1) stage image acquisition and RoI selection, 2) stage feature extraction and classification. Various experiments with the number of convolution layers (3 layers to 6 layers) and various input block sizes and other hyper parameters were used to get the best model. The best model is obtained when the input image size is greater than 100 and less than 150 and a five of convolution layer, as well as other hyper parameters, including epochs=100, dropout=0.5, learning rate=0.0001, batch size= 16 and loss function using Adam's optimization. Validation and testing accuracy achieved by the best model is 98.10%, and 92.50. The research shows that the bigger images provide additional information about trabecular patterns in normal, osteopenia and osteoporosis classes, so that the proposed method using deep convolutional neural network as textural feature of the periapical radiograph achieves a good performance for detection osteoporosis.

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