An Overview of Medical Imaging Techniques for Knee Osteoarthritis Disease

Abstract

Osteoarthritis is the most common form of “Arthritis & Joint disease”. Osteoarthritis (OA) is one of the fundamental causes of older and overweight individual’s sickness. It is the main cause of disability in adults. Mostly this disease occurs in people above 45 years of age, in which women suffer more as compared to men. it is basically damaged the Cartilage, because of which bones rub each other causing intense pain and inflammation. this gets thick and makes spurs at the edges. The knee Osteoarthritis is of 4 grades according to X-ray. The first 2 grade and 3rd grade can be recovered with the help of therapy and medications, while the 4th grade is necessary for knee replacement. The emerging Osteoarthritis management approach involves clinical evaluation & diagnostic imaging techniques. Within this research, we explore descriptively and objectively the various medical imaging methods used to diagnose and identify knee osteoarthritis. We study on the automatically detection of recovery rate of human disease and classify Osteoarthritis in the knee from medical images (like Magnetic Resonance image, CT scan, X-ray) from various medical image classification procedures. This paper provides a study that focuses on the various medical imaging methods used to determine osteoarthritis.