Fang Yan, Liu Lu, Yang Qingyu, Hao Shuang, Luo Zhihai
Chengdu University of Information Technology, Chengdu City 610225, China.
School of Physical Education and Health, Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chengdu 611137, China.
Bioimpacts. 2024 Sep 8;15:30419. doi: 10.34172/bi.30419. eCollection 2025.
Meniscus injuries in athletes' knee joints not only hinder performance but also pose substantial challenges in timely diagnosis and effective treatment. Delayed or inaccurate diagnosis often leads to prolonged recovery periods, exacerbating athletes' discomfort and compromising their ability to return to peak performance levels. Therefore, the accurate and timely diagnosis of meniscus injuries is crucial for athletes to receive appropriate treatment promptly and resume their training regimen effectively.
This paper presents a multi-step approach for diagnosing meniscus injuries through segmentation of images into lesions regions, followed by a combined classification method. The present study employs a method whereby image noise is first reduced, followed by the implementation of an enhanced iteration of the U-Net algorithm to perform image segmentation and identify regions of interest for potential injury detection.
In the context of diagnosing injury images, the extraction of features was accomplished through the utilization of the contour line method. Furthermore, the identification of injury types was facilitated through the application of the ensemble method, employing the principles of basic category-based voting. The method under consideration has been subjected to evaluation using a well-recognized dataset comprising MRI images knee joint injuries.
The findings reveal that the efficacy of the proposed approach exhibits a significant enhancement in contrast to the newly developed techniques.
运动员膝关节半月板损伤不仅会影响运动表现,还会在及时诊断和有效治疗方面带来重大挑战。延迟或不准确的诊断往往会导致恢复时间延长,加剧运动员的不适,并影响他们恢复到最佳运动水平的能力。因此,准确及时地诊断半月板损伤对于运动员及时接受适当治疗并有效恢复训练至关重要。
本文提出了一种多步骤方法,通过将图像分割成损伤区域,然后采用组合分类方法来诊断半月板损伤。本研究采用的方法是先降低图像噪声,然后实施增强版的U-Net算法迭代来进行图像分割,并识别潜在损伤检测的感兴趣区域。
在诊断损伤图像时,通过利用轮廓线法完成特征提取。此外,通过应用集成方法,基于基本类别投票原则,促进了损伤类型的识别。所考虑的方法已使用包含膝关节损伤MRI图像的公认数据集进行评估。
研究结果表明,与新开发的技术相比,所提出方法的有效性有显著提高。