Abstract
The introduction of YOLOv9, the latest version of the You Only Look Once
(YOLO) series, has led to its widespread adoption across various
scenarios. This paper is the first to apply the YOLOv9 algorithm model
to the fracture detection task as computer-assisted diagnosis (CAD) to
help radiologists and surgeons to interpret X-ray images. Specifically,
this paper trained the model on the GRAZPEDWRI-DX dataset and extended
the training set using data augmentation techniques to improve the model
performance. Experimental results demonstrate that compared to the mAP
50-95 of the current state-of-the-art (SOTA) model, the YOLOv9 model
increased the value from 42.16% to 43.73%, with an improvement of
3.7%. The implementation code is publicly available at
https://github.com/RuiyangJu/YOLOv9-Fracture-Detection.