Detection of Knee Osteoarthritis Using X-Ray

We describe a method to detect osteoarthritis (OA) from knee X-ray images. The detection is based on the thickness of cartilage in knee bone, which correspond to possibility of osteoarthritis. Using our approach better diagnosis treatment can be applied to the patient since a computed automated measurements leads to accurate values so the image segmentation and mathematical morphological operation is applied to extract the border of cartilage by covering the boundary of cartilage. If cartilage thickness is lesser than 1.69 mm the patient has OA, otherwise not for this analysis we considered dataset of 100 X-ray image both with and without OA.