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Background: Osteoporosis is associated with a decrease of bone mineralized component as well as a increase of bone marrow fat. At present, there are few studies using radiomics nomogram based fat-water material decomposition (MD) images of spectral CT as an evaluation method of osteoporosis. This study aims to establish and validate a radiomics nomogram based the fat-water imaging of spectral CT in diagnosing osteoporosis.Methods: 95 patients who underwent spectral CT included T11-L2 and dual x-ray absorptiometry (DXA) were collected. The patients were divided into two groups according to T-score, normal bone mineral density (BMD) (T≥-1) and abnormally low BMD (TResults: Five radiomic features based on fat-water imaging of spectral CT were constructed to distinguish abnormally low BMD from normal BMD, and its differential performance was high with an area under the curve (AUC) of 0.95 (95% CI, 0.89-1.00) in the training cohort and 0.97 (95% CI, 0.91-1.00) in the test cohort. The radiomics nomogram showed excellent differential ability with AUC of 0.96 (95%CI, 0.91-1.00) in the training cohort and 0.98 (95%CI, 0.93-1.00) in the test cohort, which performed better than the radiomics model and clinics model only. The DCA showed that the radiomics nomogram had a higher benefit in differentiating abnormally low BMD from normal BMD than the clinical model alone.Conclusion: The radiomics nomogram incorporated radiomics features and clinical factor based the fat-water imaging of spectral CT may serve as an efficient tool to identify abnormally low BMD from normal BMD well. |