ESPE Abstracts

Background: In the last 50 years bone age has been manually evaluated using the method of Tanner and Whitehouse. Recently automated image analysis has been introduced for bone age determination. The automated method shows good agreement with manual evaluation; further, the precision of the automated method may be higher compared to the manual method.Objective and hypotheses: To report on the discrepancy of bone age determination using the manual TW2 meth...