An Automatic Method for Assessing Spiking of Tibial Tubercles Associated with Knee Osteoarthritis.

Efficient and scalable early diagnostic methods for knee osteoarthritis are desired due to the disease's prevalence. The current automatic methods for detecting osteoarthritis using plain radiographs struggle to identify the subjects with early-stage disease. Tibial spiking has been hypothesized as a feature of early knee osteoarthritis.