Transfer Learning Model Training Time Comparison for Osteoporosis Classification on Knee Radiograph of RGB and Grayscale Images

Abstract

In terms of financial costs and human suffering, osteoporosis poses a serious public health burden. Reduced bone mass, degeneration of the microarchitecture of bone tissue, and an increased risk of fracture are its main skeletal symptoms. Osteoporosis is caused not just by low bone mineral density, but also by other factors such as age, weight, height, and lifestyle. Recent advancement in Artificial Intelligence (AI) has led to successful applications of expert systems that use Deep Learning techniques for osteoporosis diagnosis based on some modalities such as dental radiographs amongst others. This study uses a dataset of knee radiographs (i.e., knee-Xray images) to apply and compare the training time of two robust transfer learning model algorithms: GoogLeNet, VGG-16, and ResNet50 to classify osteoporosis. The dataset was split into two subcategories using python opencv library: Grayscale Images and Red Green Blue (RGB) images. From the scikit learn python analysis, the training time of the GoogLeNet model on grayscale images and RGB images was 42minutes and 50 minutes respectively. The VGG-16 model training time on grayscale images and RGB images was 37 minutes and 44 minutes respectively. In addition, to compare the diagnostic performance of the two models, several state-of-the-art neural networks metric was used.