Bone age is the abbreviation of bone age. Bone age assessment can more accurately reflect the level of human growth and development. Now most people should be familiar with bone age measurement, Xiaobian has a childhood parents took to the hospital bone age memory. By measuring the bone age, we can know the biological age of children, and then we can infer the growth and development potential of children.
Every parent must be very attentive to the growth and development. It's fun to watch kids jumping up and down, but sometimes getting ahead of time may be a hidden danger.
Xiaobian had read a report that a 9-year-old boy was tall in the class and his mother was happy. But doctors remind them that this may be a sign of precocious puberty. After examination, the boy's bone age has reached the level of 13-year-old children, but still far from the height of 13-year-old children, in fact, has sexual precocity, if not intervened in time treatment, adolescent body of a large number of sex hormones also let the epiphysis closed early, the child is likely to grow no longer tall.

For children's physical and mental health, bone age testing is very important.
It seems that it is still necessary for parents to take bone age when they were young.
As one of the important means to judge whether a child develops in advance, bone age is closely related to growth, which is also an important index to predict the adult height of children. It should be noted that only before the closure of the epiphyseal line can people grow tall, when the epiphyseal line closed, the height of people will stop growing. Once the epiphyseal line is closed, no one can help the child, and the possibility of growing up is negligible. If we neglect the abnormal growth of children's height, it is likely to develop into children's short stature, affecting children's life-long.

Of course, you will think that it's nothing short of being short, so long as children are healthy and happy. However, according to children's endocrinologists, more than 90% of short-stature adolescents have mental disorders, and some children may even be tired of learning.
Therefore, in order to ensure children's physical and mental health, it is very important to check the bone age regularly.
Although bone age is good, traditional methods have limitations.
Generally speaking, the difference between bone age and life age is called normal development within (+) 1 years of age, earlier development than 1 year of biological age, and backward development below 1 year of age.
How to detect bone age? In clinic, the wrist X-ray film is usually taken, and then the doctor observes the development of ossification center according to the film taken. The bone age is determined by GP map and TW3 method.

GP atlas is the earliest and complete method of bone age identification. It is mainly based on the paper image album to compare the hand bone X-ray film with the naked eye. This method has many problems, such as strong subjectivity, poor clinical accuracy and so on, which will cause a greater error with the test results.
The other TW3 method, although significantly improved in accuracy compared with the atlas method, has a complex detection process that requires at least 15 minutes to detect a child's bone age. With the progress of the times, parents pay more and more attention to the growth and development of children, and the bone age detection is increasing. Both methods can not meet the current huge market demand.
Artificial intelligence bone age, instantaneous seconds results
When artificial detection is limited, the advantage of AI is obvious. In-depth learning based on a large number of high-quality data, and establish a prediction model, so that bone age detection can become efficient and accurate. But the first thing we need to solve is what we can do to achieve this goal.

Detecting bone age is nothing more than deep learning from images, and we usually think of a graphics processing unit (GPUs). Although graphics processing units (GPUs) are designed to handle images well, data scientists must address the inherent memory limitations of some models.

So Intel and Philips chose another way to use Xeon bone age prediction models, using Intel's Xeon scalable processors and the OpenVINO toolkit. Because Intel-to-Strong Scalable Processors do not have the memory limitations mentioned earlier, they can speed up complex hybrid workloads, including large memory-intensive models common in medical imaging. For large subsets of artificial intelligence (AI) workloads, Intel-to-strong scalable processors can better meet the needs of data scientists than GPU-based systems.

The results showed that the speed of the bone age prediction model increased 188 times, from 1.42 images per second of the original benchmark to 267.1 images per second of the final optimization.
Using this model, not only the results will be more objective, but also will greatly reduce the pressure on the doctor to work, so as to better determine the priority of cases, to provide better medical services for more patients while reducing hospital costs.
Let more parents benefit
This efficient and accurate bone age prediction model can even be used in regular physical examinations of primary and secondary school students. The bone age test is added to the annual physical examination arranged by the school to keep an eye on the height of the child. If problems are found, intervention can be made as early as possible to avoid the occurrence of regrets.
Doctors recommend a bone age test at the age of 3-10. The child is just beginning to develop before puberty. Early testing can also tell a child's development. If problems are found, more time for treatment and adjustment can be gained. Bone age testing during puberty can determine whether the child is developing normally, especially when it comes to height.

Test results can also guide parents in their children's diet and daily life habits. If they want to grow taller, parents should adjust their children's diet and exercise more, such as playing basketball, jumping, pull-ups and so on. Only then can children and themselves not regret, and let their children develop towards the direction of physical and mental health.