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Third International Conference on Information Technology: New Generations (ITNG'06)
Similarity Analysis of Bone Mineral Density Measurements of Femur Sites Using Dendrogram
Las Vegas, Nevada
April 10-April 12
ISBN: 0-7695-2497-4
Ray R. Hashemi, Armstrong Atlantic State University
Alexander A. Tyler, University College Cork, Ireland
Chris Childers, Armstrong Atlantic State University
Arthur Chausmer, Moanalua Medical Center
Bone mineral density (BMD) measurements are the gold standard by which osteoporosis is diagnosed. Dual Energy X-ray Absorptiometry (DEXA) is the most commonly used measuring technique to assess BMD at both the hip and spine. There are three sites within each hip, collectively called the femoral sites, which are assessed?the femoral neck site, the trochanteric site, and Ward?s triangle. It is a known fact that the different areas of the femur are composed of different percentages of cancellous bone. The null hypothesis that we examine in this paper is that there is no difference between the mineralization states at all of these sites. To do so, we introduce and present a dendrogram-based methodology that (1) identifies valid clusters for any two given subsets of the six sites, (2) uses the valid clusters to examine the existence of associations between the two subsets, and (3) the existence of association, if any, is measured by the degree of similarity between the two subsets. The obtained results in this research effort partially reject the null hypothesis.
Index Terms:
Dendrogram, Valid Dendrogram, Similarity Analysis, Degree of Similarity, Bone mineral density, and Dual Energy X-ray Absorptiometry.
Citation:
Ray R. Hashemi, Alexander A. Tyler, Chris Childers, Arthur Chausmer, "Similarity Analysis of Bone Mineral Density Measurements of Femur Sites Using Dendrogram," itng, pp.625-630, Third International Conference on Information Technology: New Generations (ITNG'06), 2006
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