BONE AGE ANALYSIS FROM BONE X-RAY

Bone age is a method to analyze the child skeleton’s maturity according to their age level. Bone age assessment involves left hand radiograph image for clear observation of the growth plate which appeared darker on the radiograph. Manual bone age assessment basically take time f task in for radiologist and there are always issue related to intra observer and inter observer differences. In the study, the analysis and classification of hand x-ray image is experimented in order to determine the bone age of young children from newborn to 12 years old. To achieve the objectives, the bone age classification method will involve image segmentation of the x-ray, feature extraction from the segmented images and lastly, classification of bone age level. Results from the classification can be used to access children skeleton growth abnormality in which can be observe that the ratio from 0.3 to 0.7 corresponding to the development child’ age 0 until 8 years old and the ratio with 1 value correspond to the age 8 years and above. Therefore, the result indicate that the algorithm works well in analyze the bone age assessment.