Pelvic bone region segmentation (PBRS) from X-ray image using convolutional neural network (CNN)

Pelvic and hip fractures offer considerable public health risks with high morbidity and mortality rates. Because of the complicated bone structure of the pelvic bone region, detecting fractures is difficult. Though X-ray imaging is routinely utilised for detecting fractures, manual fracture diagnosis is prone to inaccuracies. This paper proposes the use of deep learning algorithms for automated segmentation of the pelvic bone region in X-ray images. In our work, we have investigated U-Net based pelvic area segmentation models with various convolutional neural network (CNN) backbones. The DenseNet121-based U-Net design emerged as the most optimal model, establishing a compromise between performance and computational efficiency. Although it had a modest loss in IoU and F1 scores when compared to InceptionNetV3, it had a remarkable 59.44% reduction in the number of parameters.