. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2007 Oct 24.

Published in final edited form as: Comput Med Imaging Graph. 2007 Mar 21;31(4-5):299–310. doi: 10.1016/j.compmedimag.2007.02.008

Table 1.

Reliability of ROI analysis for different age groups in CAD method

Age group (years)	ROI

	Phalangeal ROI analysis	Carpal ROI analysis
0–5 (female), 0–7 (male)	Size and shape analysis of epi-metaphysis: feature extraction is not reliable	Size and shape analysis of carpal bones: feature extraction is reliable
6–12 (female), 8–12 (male)	Size and shape analysis of epi-metaphysis: feature extraction is reliable	Degree of overlapping of carpal bones: feature extraction is not reliable
13–18 (female and male)	Degree of fusion of epi-metaphysis: feature extraction is highly reliable