Artificial intelligence in positioning between mandibular third molar and inferior alveolar nerve on panoramic radiography.

ABSTRACT: Determining the exact positional relationship between mandibular third molar (M3) and inferior alveolar nerve (IAN) is important for surgical extractions. Panoramic radiography is the most common dental imaging test. The purposes of this study were to develop an artificial intelligence (AI) model to determine two positional relationships (true contact and bucco-lingual position) between M3 and IAN when they were overlapped in panoramic radiographs and compare its performance with that of oral and maxillofacial surgery (OMFS) specialists. A total of 571 panoramic images of M3 from 394 patients was used for this study. Among the images, 202 were classified as true contact, 246 as intimate, 61 as IAN buccal position, and 62 as IAN lingual position. A deep convolutional neural network model wi

SUBMITTER: Choi E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8844031 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature