Work place: Department of Electronics and Computer Science, Shah and Anchor Kutchhi Engineering College, Chembur, Mumbai – 400088, India
E-mail: nandkishor.narkhede@sakec.ac.in
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Biography
Nandkishor Narkhede, Associate Professor, Department of Electronics and Computer Science, Shah and Anchor Kutchhi Engineering College, Mumbai, India. He holds a Ph.D. in Electronics and Communications with specialization in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. His research interests include Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Medical Image Analysis, and Intelligent Systems. He has published journal articles, conference papers, and Springer book chapters.
By Nandkishor Narkhede D. Girish Kumar Dhanya Job K. Varada Rajkumar Tirumalasetti Lakshmi Narayana B. Loveswara Rao
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijigsp.2026.04.09, Pub. Date: 8 Aug. 2026
It is still hard to accurately find bone fractures and figure out how bad osteoarthritis (OA) is from X-ray pictures because of the complicated anatomical differences and the lack of contextual modelling in standard deep learning methods. This research presents XrayBoneNet, a hybrid deep learning system that combines Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), Transformer-based global feature modelling, and attention mechanisms for concurrent fracture identification, OA grading, and localization. The model has two heads: one for binary fracture classification and one for multi-class OA staging. It also has a bounding box regression head for accurate localization. To improve training efficiency and performance, a hybrid optimization technique that uses Bighorn Sheep Optimization (BSO) for global exploration and Logarithmic Mean Optimization (LMO) for fine-tuning is developed. The Bone Fracture Multi-Region X-ray dataset shows that XrayBoneNet works better than state-of-the-art models like ResNet50, DenseNet121, and Vision Transformer. It has 96.8% accuracy in fracture detection, 94.5% accuracy in OA classification, and an Intersection-over-Union (IoU) of 0.87 for localization. The suggested system offers an effective and comprehensible alternative for automated radiological diagnosis.
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