Opportunistic screening for osteoporosis by routine CT in Southern Europe.
Elena AlacreuDavid MoratalEstanislao AranaPublished in: Osteoporosis international : a journal established as result of cooperation between the European Foundation for Osteoporosis and the National Osteoporosis Foundation of the USA (2017)
Abdominal CT images obtained for other reasons can identify patients with osteoporosis BMD without additional radiation exposure or cost. Uncalibrated values at L1 can detect more osteoporosis patients with spinal compression fractures than DXA in oncologic patients.
Keyphrases
- bone mineral density
- postmenopausal women
- dual energy
- end stage renal disease
- image quality
- newly diagnosed
- chronic kidney disease
- ejection fraction
- contrast enhanced
- body composition
- deep learning
- peritoneal dialysis
- magnetic resonance imaging
- positron emission tomography
- prognostic factors
- rectal cancer
- clinical practice
- convolutional neural network
- prostate cancer
- spinal cord injury