Editorial Commentary: Saucerization Is Superior to Total Meniscectomy in Patients With Symptomatic Discoid Lateral Meniscus.

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Abstract

[Indexed for MEDLINE] 19. J Healthc Eng. 2021 Apr 20;2021:6662664. doi: 10.1155/2021/6662664. eCollection 2021. Automatic Discoid Lateral Meniscus Diagnosis from Radiographs Based on Image Processing Tools and Machine Learning. Li X(1), Sun Y(1), Jiao J(2), Wu H(1), Yang C(2), Yang X(1). Author information: (1)The Digital ART Lab of School of Software, Shanghai JiaoTong University, Shanghai 200240, China. (2)Department of Bone and Joint Surgery, Department of Orthopaedics, Shanghai Jiaotong University, School of Medicine, Renji Hospital, Shanghai 200127, China. The aim of the present study is to build a software implementation of a previous study and to diagnose discoid lateral menisci on knee joint radiograph images. A total of 160 images from normal individuals and patients who were diagnosed with discoid lateral menisci were included. Our software implementation includes two parts: preprocessing and measurement. In the first phase, the whole radiograph image was analyzed to obtain basic information about the patient. Machine learning was used to segment the knee joint from the original radiograph image. Image enhancement and denoising tools were used to strengthen the image and remove noise. In the second phase, edge detection was used to quantify important features in the image. A specific algorithm was designed to build a model of the knee joint and measure the parameters. Of the test images, 99.65% were segmented correctly. Furthermore, 97.5% of the tested images were segmented correctly and their parameters were measured successfully. There was no significant difference between manual and automatic measurements in the discoid (P=0.28) and control groups (P=0.15). The mean and standard deviations of the ratio of lateral joint space distance to the height of the lateral tibial spine were compared with the results of manual measurement. The software performed well on raw radiographs, showing a satisfying success rate and robustness. Thus, it is possible to diagnose discoid lateral menisci on radiographs with the help of radiograph-image-analyzing software (BM3D, etc.) and artificial intelligence-related tools (YOLOv3). The results of this study can help build a joint database that contains data from patients and thus can play a role in the diagnosis of discoid lateral menisci and other knee joint diseases in the future. Copyright © 2021 Xibai Li et al. DOI: 10.1155/2021/6662664 PMCID: PMC8081628