Patient-Level, Leakage-Aware Deep Learning for Cross-Center Periapical Radiograph Classification
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Dental caries and endodontic disease are among the most common health conditions worldwide, and intraoral periapical radiographs are central to their detection, treatment planning, and follow-up. Auto...
The paper introduces a dual‑stage deep learning system for detecting dental caries in panoramic radiographs. It first localizes teeth using Faster R‑CNN, then applies U‑Net for pixel‑wise caries segmentation, converting polygon annotations into high‑resolution binary masks. Trained on 3,000 images with both expert and algorithmic labels, the model achieves an IoU of 0.9013, Dice of 0.9482, Recall of 0.9433, and Precision of 0.9774, outperforming existing methods and reducing false positives.
The study evaluates automatic tooth segmentation on panoramic radiographs using a large annotated corpus of 1,422 images and 42,142 tooth polygons. It finds that increasing input resolution improves boundary precision (mask mAP50‑95 rises from 0.656 to 0.717) while detection performance remains unchanged, and that architectural changes have minimal impact on in‑domain accuracy. Targeted interventions such as LoRA adaptation, promptable foundation models, and anatomical label assignment provide negligible gains, indicating that resolution and acquisition diversity should be prioritized over model novelty.
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