Diagnosis of DMFR Anatomy and Pathologies Using Deep-Learning Artificial Intelligence System

A special issue of Diagnostics (ISSN 2075-4418). This special issue belongs to the section "Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence in Diagnostics".

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Dear Colleagues,

There have been many remarkable advances in conventional imaging over the past decade. Perhaps the most remarkable is the rapid conversion from film-based to digital radiographic systems through Artificial Intelligence (AI). AI can perform complex behaviors such as problem solving, decision making, and object recognition. Deep learning methods cover a group of AI methods that use multiple simple linked units to perform complex tasks. These algorithms can learn from large numbers of data instead of a set of pre-programmed directions. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have become the most popular deep learning model for the field of medical imaging. Radiomics refers to the high-throughput extraction of large numbers of imaging features, thus converting medical images into mineable high-dimensional data; the subsequent quantitative analysis of these data can support decision making. Radiomics aims to predict patient-specific outcomes based on high-throughput analysis and mining of advanced imaging biomarkers by machine learning algorithms. The Scope of the Thematic Issue is to give up-to-date information regarding recent developments such as OPG tooth numbering, OPG periodontal assessment, OPG caries detection, OPG anatomical landmark detection, MDCT segmentation, MDCT anatomical landmark detection, MDCT paranasal sinus pathology detection, CBCT 3D segmentation, MRI landmark detection, MRI rhinosinus pathology detection, MRI salivary gland detection, MRI- anatomical landmark detection, USG salivary gland, USG lymph node detection, USG metastasis detection, USG radiomics, oral cancers and radiomics, oral cancer deep learning, and oral mucosal pathologies and radiomics.

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The U-Net Approaches to Evaluation of Dental Bite-Wing Radiographs: An Artificial Intelligence Study
by Oğuzhan Baydar, Ingrid Różyło-Kalinowska, Karolina Futyma-Gąbka and Hande Sağlam
Diagnostics 2023, 13(3), 453; https://doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics13030453 - 26 Jan 2023
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Bite-wing radiographs are one of the most used intraoral radiography techniques in dentistry. AI is extremely important in terms of more efficient patient care in the field of dentistry. The aim of this study was to perform a diagnostic evaluation on bite-wing radiographs [...] Read more.
Bite-wing radiographs are one of the most used intraoral radiography techniques in dentistry. AI is extremely important in terms of more efficient patient care in the field of dentistry. The aim of this study was to perform a diagnostic evaluation on bite-wing radiographs with an AI model based on CNNs. In this study, 500 bite-wing radiographs in the radiography archive of Eskişehir Osmangazi University, Faculty of Dentistry, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology were used. The CranioCatch labeling program (CranioCatch, Eskisehir, Turkey) with tooth decays, crowns, pulp, restoration material, and root-filling material for five different diagnoses were made by labeling the segmentation technique. The U-Net architecture was used to develop the AI model. F1 score, sensitivity, and precision results of the study, respectively, caries 0.8818–0.8235–0.9491, crown; 0.9629–0.9285–1, pulp; 0.9631–0.9843–0.9429, with restoration material; and 0.9714–0.9622–0.9807 was obtained as 0.9722–0.9459–1 for the root filling material. This study has shown that an AI model can be used to automatically evaluate bite-wing radiographs and the results are promising. Owing to these automatically prepared charts, physicians in a clinical intense tempo will be able to work more efficiently and quickly. Full article
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A Novel Deep Learning-Based Approach for Segmentation of Different Type Caries Lesions on Panoramic Radiographs
by Burak Dayı, Hüseyin Üzen, İpek Balıkçı Çiçek and Şuayip Burak Duman
Diagnostics 2023, 13(2), 202; https://doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics13020202 - 05 Jan 2023
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The study aims to evaluate the diagnostic performance of an artificial intelligence system based on deep learning for the segmentation of occlusal, proximal and cervical caries lesions on panoramic radiographs. The study included 504 anonymous panoramic radiographs obtained from the radiology archive of [...] Read more.
The study aims to evaluate the diagnostic performance of an artificial intelligence system based on deep learning for the segmentation of occlusal, proximal and cervical caries lesions on panoramic radiographs. The study included 504 anonymous panoramic radiographs obtained from the radiology archive of Inonu University Faculty of Dentistry’s Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology from January 2018 to January 2020. This study proposes Dental Caries Detection Network (DCDNet) architecture for dental caries segmentation. The main difference between DCDNet and other segmentation architecture is that the last part of DCDNet contains a Multi-Predicted Output (MPO) structure. In MPO, the final feature map split into three different paths for detecting occlusal, proximal and cervical caries. Extensive experimental analyses were executed to analyze the DCDNet network architecture performance. In these comparison results, while the proposed model achieved an average F1-score of 62.79%, the highest average F1-score of 15.69% was achieved with the state-of-the-art segmentation models. These results show that the proposed artificial intelligence-based model can be one of the indispensable auxiliary tools of dentists in the diagnosis and treatment planning of carious lesions by enabling their detection in different locations with high success. Full article
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