Clinicians' perception of oral potentially malignant disorders: a pitfall for image annotation in supervised learning.

Journal: Oral surgery, oral medicine, oral pathology and oral radiology
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Abstract

OBJECTIVE: The present study aims to quantify clinicians' perceptions of oral potentially malignant disorders (OPMDs) when evaluating, classifying, and manually annotating clinical images, as well as to understand the source of inter-observer variability when assessing these lesions. The hypothesis was that different interpretations could affect the quality of the annotations used to train a Supervised Learning model.

Authors

  • Anna Luíza Damaceno Araújo
    Oral Diagnosis Department, Piracicaba Dental School, University of Campinas (FOP-UNICAMP), Piracicaba, São Paulo, Brazil.
  • Eduardo Santos Carlos de Souza
    Institute of Mathematics and Computer Sciences of University of São Paulo (ICMC-USP), São Carlos, São Paulo, Brazil.
  • Isabel Schausltz Pereira Faustino
    Oral Diagnosis Department, Piracicaba Dental School, University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Piracicaba, São Paulo, Brazil.
  • Cristina Saldivia-Siracusa
    Oral Diagnosis Department, Piracicaba Dental School, University of Campinas (FOP-UNICAMP), Piracicaba, São Paulo, Brazil.
  • Tamires Brito-Sarracino
    Institute of Mathematics and Computer Sciences, University of São Paulo (ICMC-USP), São Carlos, São Paulo, Brazil.
  • Márcio Ajudarte Lopes
    Oral Diagnosis Department (Pathology and Semiology), Piracicaba Dental School, University of Campinas, Piracicaba, Brazil.
  • Pablo Agustin Vargas
    Oral Diagnosis Department, Piracicaba Dental School, University of Campinas (FOP-UNICAMP), Piracicaba, São Paulo, Brazil.
  • Alexander T Pearson
    Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
  • Luiz Paulo Kowalski
    Department of Head and Neck Surgery and Otorhinolaryngology, AC Camargo Cancer Center, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
  • André Carlos Ponce de Leon Ferreira de Carvalho
    Institute of Mathematics and Computer Sciences of University of São Paulo (ICMC-USP), São Carlos, São Paulo, Brazil.
  • Alan Roger Santos-Silva
    Oral Diagnosis Department (Pathology and Semiology), Piracicaba Dental School, University of Campinas, Piracicaba, Brazil.