Detection of Dental Apical Lesions Using CNNs on Periapical Radiograph

• Main Authors: Li, Chun-Wei, Lin, Szu-Yin, Chou, He-Sheng, Chen, Tsung-Yi, Chen, Yu-An, Liu, Sheng-Yu, Liu, Yu-Lin, Chen, Chiung-An, Huang, Yen-Cheng, Chen, Shih-Lun, Mao, Yi-Cheng, Abu, Patricia Angela R, Chiang, Wei-Yuan, Lo, Wen-Shen
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2021
• Subjects: biomedical image; periapical image; apical lesion; Gaussian high pass filter; iterative thresholding; deep learning; CNN; Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment; Computer Sciences; Databases and Information Systems; Dentistry; Diseases
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/discs-faculty-pubs/278; https://archium.ateneo.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1277&context=discs-faculty-pubs
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

Apical lesions, the general term for chronic infectious diseases, are very common dental diseases in modern life, and are caused by various factors. The current prevailing endodontic treatment makes use of X-ray photography taken from patients where the lesion area is marked manually, which is there...