AI-based opportunistic analysis of the CT images during COVID (2021): Does living in a metropolitan area affect the vertebral body mineral density in older people?

Andrey V. Vlasov, Alexei V. Petraikin

Keywords: vertebral body mineral density (BMD), megacity locals, pre-trained neutral networks for anchor-free vertebra detection

TL;DR: The vertebral bone mineral density values of older residents of the two territories in the Moscow metropolitan area with a different structure of the urban environment significantly differ.

Abstract:

The aim of the study is to reveal the problems of using information on several territorial units (districts) of an integral urban agglomeration for an identification of interdimensional peculiarities of living in a particular area by estimating vertebral bone mineral density in Moscow residents aged 50 and older.
The results of this study will provide hypothesis testing for a pilot project to create a model of spatial exposure to the urban environment (Computer Vision Experiment; Clinical Trial: NCT04489992), which will form the basis of identifying individuals (groups of individuals) at risk of "accelerated" occupational aging and musculoskeletal diseases.