Elucidating the Correlation between Bone Mineral Density and Multifidus Muscle Characteristics: A Cross-Modal Study with Dual-Energy X-ray Absorptiometry and Spinal Computed Tomography Texture Analysis
Min-Woo Kim, Young-Min Noh, Yun-Sung Jung, Se-Yeong Jeon, Dong-Ha Lee, Fabiano Bini · 2023
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Description
Bone and muscle waste away together in old age, and the authors of this study test whether a muscle's texture on a scan can betray the bone's strength. They paired spinal CT scans with DXA bone scans in 395 patients, reading the gray-level texture of the multifidus, the deep muscle that braces the spine, from chest to sacrum. Those texture values tracked bone mineral density and content at the spine and hip with correlations between roughly 0.56 and 0.76.
A regression model could predict bone density from texture with small errors. The team argues that scans taken for other reasons could double as quiet screens for bone loss, tying muscle quality into how osteoporosis risk is judged.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Min-Woo Kim, Young-Min Noh, Yun-Sung Jung, Se-Yeong Jeon, Dong-Ha Lee, Fabiano Bini |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2023 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 28 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |