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Purpose:
To investigate the influence of teeth and dental restorations on the facial skeleton's gray value distributions in cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT).
Methods:
Gray value selection for the upper and lower jaw segmentation was performed in 40 patients. In total, CBCT data of 20 maxillae and 20 mandibles, ten partial edentulous and ten fully edentulous in each jaw, respectively, were evaluated using two different gray value selection procedures: manual lower threshold selection and automated lower threshold selection. Two sample t tests, linear regression models, linear mixed models, and Pearson's correlation coefficients were computed to evaluate the influence of teeth, dental restorations, and threshold selection procedures on gray value distributions.
Results:
Manual threshold selection resulted in significantly different gray values in the fully and partially edentulous mandible. (p = 0.015, difference 123). In automated threshold selection, only tendencies to different gray values in fully edentulous compared to partially edentulous jaws were observed (difference: 58–75). Significantly different gray values were evaluated for threshold selection approaches, independent of the dental situation of the analyzed jaw. No significant correlation between the number of teeth and gray values was assessed, but a trend towards higher gray values in patients with more teeth was noted.
Conclusions:
Standard gray values derived from CT imaging do not apply for threshold-based bone segmentation in CBCT. Teeth influence gray values and segmentation results. Inaccurate bone segmentation may result in ill-fitting surgical guides produced on CBCT data and misinterpreting bone density, which is crucial for selecting surgical protocols.
In dentistry, software-based medical image analysis and visualization provide efficient and accurate diagnostic and therapy planning capabilities. We present an approach for the automatic recognition of tooth types and positions in digital volume tomography (DVT). By using deep learning techniques in combination with dimensionality reduction through non-planar reformatting of the jaw anatomy, DVT data can be efficiently processed and
teeth reliably recognized and classified, even in the presence of imaging artefacts, missing or dislocated teeth.
We evaluated our approach, which is based on 2D Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), on 118 manually
annotated cases of clinical DVT datasets. Our proposed method correctly classifies teeth with an accuracy of
94% within a limit of 2mm distance to ground truth labels.
In dentistry, software-based medical image analysis and visualization provide effcient and accurate diagnostic and therapy planning capabilities. We present an approach for the automatic recognition of tooth types and positions in digital volume tomography (DVT). By using deep learning techniques in combination with dimension reduction through non-planar reformatting of the jaw anatomy, DVT data can be effciently processed and teeth reliably recognized and classified, even in the presence of imaging artefacts, missing or dislocated teeth.
We evaluated our approach, which is based on 2D Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), on 118 manually annotated cases of clinical DVT datasets. Our proposed method correctly classifies teeth with an accuracy of 94% within a limit of 2mm distancr to ground truth landmarks.