Fast Prediction of Femoral Biomechanics Using Supervised Machine Learning and Statistical Shape Modeling

Taghizadeh, Elham; Kistler, Michael; Büchler, Philippe; Reyes, Mauricio (2016). Fast Prediction of Femoral Biomechanics Using Supervised Machine Learning and Statistical Shape Modeling. In: Joldes, Grand; Doyle, Barry; Wittek, Adam; Nielsen, Poul; Miller, Karol (eds.) Computational Biomechanics for Medicine X (pp. 115-127). Springer-Verlag New York

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Finite element (FE) analysis is an important computational tool in biomechanics. However, its adoption into clinical practice has been hampered by its computational complexity and required high technical competences for clinicians. In this paper we propose a supervised learning approach to predict the outcome of the FE analysis. We demonstrate our approach on clinical CT and X-ray femur images for FE predictions (
FEP), with features extracted, respectively, from a statistical shape model and from 2D-based morphometric and density information. Using leave-one-out experiments and sensitivity analysis, comprising a database of 89 clinical cases, our method is capable of predicting the distribution of stress values for a walking loading condition with an average correlation coefficient of 0.984 and 0.976, for CT and X-ray images, respectively. These findings suggest that supervised learning approaches have
the potential to leverage the clinical integration of mechanical simulations for the treatment of musculoskeletal conditions.

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