Towards growth-accommodating deep learning-based semantic segmentation of pediatric hand phalanges

Edwin Tay, Amir Abbas Zadpoor, Nazli Tümer

Abstract: Highlights•Deep learning networks are trained almost exclusively on adult data, which do not generalize well to pediatric subjects.•Ensuring a minimal inclusion of pediatric subjects within training data leads to improved age-domain generalizability.•DL networks can be utilized on pediatric subjects without necessitating collecting large pediatric datasets.