Clinically Oriented CBCT Periapical Lesion Evaluation via 3D CNN Algorithm

Apical periodontitis (AP) is one of the most prevalent disorders in dentistry. However, it can be underdiagnosed in asymptomatic patients. In addition, the perioperative evaluation of 3-dimensional (3D) lesion volume is of great clinical relevance, but the required slice-by-slice manual delineation method is time- and labor-intensive. Here, for quickly and accurately detecting and segmenting periapical lesions (PALs) associated with AP on cone beam computed tomography (CBCT) images, we proposed and geographically validated a novel 3D deep convolutional neural network algorithm, named PAL-Net. On the internal 5-fold cross-validation set, our PAL-Net achieved an area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC) of 0.98. The algorithm also improved the diagnostic performance of dentists with varying levels of experience, as evidenced by their enhanced average AUC values (junior dentists: 0.89-0.94; senior dentists: 0.91-0.93), and significantly reduced the diagnostic time (junior dentists: 69.3 min faster; senior dentists: 32.4 min faster). Moreover, our PAL-Net achieved an average Dice similarity coefficient over 0.87 (0.85-0.88), which is superior or comparable to that of other existing state-of-the-art PAL segmentation algorithms. Furthermore, we validated the generalizability of the PAL-Net system using multiple external data sets from Central, East, and North China, showing that our PAL-Net has strong robustness. Our PAL-Net can help improve the diagnostic performance and speed of dentists working from CBCT images, provide clinically relevant volume information to dentists, and can potentially be applied in dental clinics, especially without expert-level dentists or radiologists.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:103

Enthalten in:

Journal of dental research - 103(2024), 1 vom: 20. Jan., Seite 5-12

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Fu, W T [VerfasserIn]
Zhu, Q K [VerfasserIn]
Li, N [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Y Q [VerfasserIn]
Deng, S L [VerfasserIn]
Chen, H P [VerfasserIn]
Shen, J [VerfasserIn]
Meng, L Y [VerfasserIn]
Bian, Z [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Apical periodontitis
Artificial intelligence
Computer vision
Deep learning
Endodontics
Journal Article
Machine learning
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

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Date Completed 22.12.2023

Date Revised 21.03.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1177/00220345231201793

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM36460378X