Development of digital diagnostic templates by cluster analysis based on 2249 lateral cephalograms of Chinese Han population.

ABSTRACT:

Background

To establish the digital diagnostic templates by cluster analysis based on a set of cephalometric films and evaluate the outcome of the different treatment methods in the patients affiliated to the same cephalometric morphology template (CMT). These templates could be used for the automatic diagnosis of dentofacial deformities and prediction of treatment outcomes in the future.

Methods

In this study, we assessed the coordinates of 60 different landmarks on the cephalograms of 2249 patients (14.35 ± 4.99 years, range from 7 to 62) with dentofacial deformities. The cephalometric data were subjected to dentist for clustering without a priori pattern definitions to generate biologically informative CMTs. Three templates were selected to evaluate the treatment outcome

SUBMITTER: Su H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8842905 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature