Automatic hyoid bone detection in fluoroscopic images using deep learning

The displacement of the hyoid bone is one of the key components evaluated in the swallow study, as its motion during swallowing is related to overall swallowing integrity. In daily research settings, experts visually detect the hyoid bone in the video frames and manually plot hyoid bone position frame by frame. This study aims to develop an automatic method to localize the location of the hyoid bone in the video sequence. To automatically detect...