Koko, a female gorilla that uses a modified form of American Sign Language and lives at The Gorilla Foundation in Woodside, CA, was recently diagnosed with an abscessed tooth using technology from veterinary digital radiography developer Eklin Medical Systems, the company reported.
The firm supplied its portable RapidStudy EDR5 system, which employs a 14 x 17-inch (35.56 x 43.18-cm) active-area detector from Canon Medical Systems of Irvine, CA, for an exam of Koko's head, chest, elbows, wrists, knees, and hips, according to the Sunnyvale, CA-based Eklin.
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
August 12, 2004
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![Representative example of a 16-year-old male patient with underlying X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy. (A, B) Paired anteroposterior (AP) chest radiograph and dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry (DXA) report shows lumbar spine (L1 through L4) areal bone mineral density (BMD). The DXA report was reformatted for anonymization and improved readability. The patient had low BMD (Z score ≤ −2.0). (C) Model (chest radiography [CXR]–BMD) output shows the predicted raw BMD and Z score in comparison with the DXA reference standard, together with interpretability analyses using Shapley additive explanations (SHAP) and gradient-weighted class activation maps. The patient was classified as having low BMD, consistent with the reference standard. AM = age-matched, DEXA = dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry, RM2 = room 2, SNUH = Seoul National University Hospital, YA = young adult.](https://img.auntminnie.com/mindful/smg/workspaces/default/uploads/2026/04/ai-children-bone-density.0snnf2EJjr.jpg?auto=format%2Ccompress&dpr=2&fit=crop&h=167&q=70&w=250)
