Artificial neural network algorithm for prediction of displacement in equine third metacarpal bone

An artificial neural network (ANN) has recently been used in conjunction with finite element analysis (FEA) to study different aspects of bone tissue adaptation. Data is limited in the literature to predict displacement in long bones from the measurements of strains and load using ANN. An ANN which was trained using ex-vivo measurements of two long bones could successfully predict the displacement field of other bones (R2 > 0.997).