A radiomic approach to the diagnosis of femoroacetabular impingement

The results of this study showed that radiomic can automatically distinguish a healthy joint from one with impingement using water-only Dixon MRI. To our knowledge, this is the first application of radiomic for FAI diagnosis. Our radiomic analysis achieved an accuracy greater than 97%, which is higher than the 90% accuracy for detecting FAI reported for standard diagnostic tests (90%). Combining our proposed radiomic analysis with methods for automated joint segmentation could be used to rapidly identify patients with FAI, avoiding time-consuming radiological measurements of bone morphology.