Fully automated deep learning approach to dental development assessment in panoramic radiographs.

Journal: BMC oral health
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Dental development assessment is an important factor in dental age estimation and dental maturity evaluation. This study aimed to develop and evaluate the performance of an automated dental development staging system based on Demirjian's method using deep learning.

Authors

  • Seung-Hwan Ong
    Department of Pediatric Dentistry, School of Dentistry, Seoul National University, 101 Daehak-ro, Jongno-gu, Seoul, 03080, Korea.
  • Hyuntae Kim
    Department of Pediatric Dentistry, School of Dentistry, Seoul National University, 101 Daehak-ro, Jongno-gu, Seoul, 03080, Korea.
  • Ji-Soo Song
    Department of Pediatric Dentistry, School of Dentistry, Seoul National University, 101 Daehak-ro, Jongno-gu, Seoul, 03080, Korea.
  • Teo Jeon Shin
    Department of Pediatric Dentistry, School of Dentistry, Seoul National University, 101 Daehak-ro, Jongno-gu, Seoul, 03080, Korea.
  • Hong-Keun Hyun
    Department of Pediatric Dentistry, School of Dentistry, Seoul National University, 101 Daehak-ro, Jongno-gu, Seoul, 03080, Korea.
  • Ki-Taeg Jang
    Department of Pediatric Dentistry, School of Dentistry, Seoul National University, 101 Daehak-ro, Jongno-gu, Seoul, 03080, Korea.
  • Young-Jae Kim
    Gil Medical Center, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Gachon University College of Medicine, Incheon 21565, Korea.