AccScience Publishing / AIH / Online First / DOI: 10.36922/aih.3184
ORIGINAL RESEARCH ARTICLE

Dental cavity analysis, prediction, localization, and quantification using computer vision

Muhammad Aqeel1 Payam Norouzzadeh2 Abbas Maazallahi1 Salih Tutun3 Golnesa Rouie Miab4 Laila Al Dehailan5 David Stoeckel6 Eli Snir3 Bahareh Rahmani1*
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1 Computer Science, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
2 Professional Studies, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
3 Data Analytics Area, Olin Business School, Washington University in Saint Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
4 Pacific Dental Services, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
5 Department of Restorative Dental Sciences, College of Dentistry, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Saudi Arabia
6 Department of Dentistry, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
AIH 2024, 1(3), 80–88; https://doi.org/10.36922/aih.3184
Submitted: 15 March 2024 | Accepted: 14 May 2024 | Published: 24 July 2024
© 2024 by the Author(s). This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ )
Abstract

Dental health assessment is a critical component of overall well-being, and advancements in computer vision and deep learning have opened new avenues for automating and enhancing this process. In this study, we present a comprehensive approach to dental cavity analysis, spanning localization, quantification, and visualization. Our methodology leveraged a diverse dataset of colored dental images that had been meticulously augmented and annotated. The You Only Look Once model was employed for precise dental cavity localization, providing bounding box predictions. Remarkably, these results were obtained based on images from standard device cameras. Subsequently, we introduced the use of the segment anything model segmentation model, known for its zero-shot generalization capabilities, to focus on the exact areas of dental cavities. This approach enhanced the granularity of our analysis, providing dental professionals with detailed visualizations for precise diagnosis. During the quantification phase, we extracted cavity areas from bounding box coordinates, enabling accurate measurement of cavity sizes. The model achieved a notable mean average precision of 0.732, an accuracy of 0.789, and a recall of 0.701. Moreover, the model converged quickly, with most metrics achieving near-optimal results after 100 iterations. This quantitative data augments traditional diagnosis methods, facilitating more informed treatment decisions.

Keywords
You only look once
Segment anything model
Segmentation model
Dental cavity
Funding
None.
Conflict of interest
The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
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