The Differences of Chronological Age With Dental Age Based on the Alqahtani Methode Aged 6-12 Years

Suntana, Mutiara Sukma; Artilia, Ira; Pertiwi, Lucy

doi:10.54052/jhds.v1n1.p60-70

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“…While chronological age is just a fixed number that does not change, dental age can vary depending on a person’s growth and thus provide more important and individual information. In addition, dental age is useful in deciding when to initiate orthodontic treatment or whether a child’s dental development is delayed or advanced since chronological age is not always equal to dental age [ 2 , 3 ].…”

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Automatic dental age calculation from panoramic radiographs using deep learning: a two-stage approach with object detection and image classification

Kokomoto,

Kariya,

Muranaka

et al. 2024

BMC Oral Health

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Background Dental age is crucial for treatment planning in pediatric and orthodontic dentistry. Dental age calculation methods can be categorized into morphological, biochemical, and radiological methods. Radiological methods are commonly used because they are non-invasive and reproducible. When radiographs are available, dental age can be calculated by evaluating the developmental stage of permanent teeth and converting it into an estimated age using a table, or by measuring the length between some landmarks such as the tooth, root, or pulp, and substituting them into regression formulas. However, these methods heavily depend on manual time-consuming processes. In this study, we proposed a novel and completely automatic dental age calculation method using panoramic radiographs and deep learning techniques. Methods Overall, 8,023 panoramic radiographs were used as training data for Scaled-YOLOv4 to detect dental germs and mean average precision were evaluated. In total, 18,485 single-root and 16,313 multi-root dental germ images were used as training data for EfficientNetV2 M to classify the developmental stages of detected dental germs and Top-3 accuracy was evaluated since the adjacent stages of the dental germ looks similar and the many variations of the morphological structure can be observed between developmental stages. Scaled-YOLOv4 and EfficientNetV2 M were trained using cross-validation. We evaluated a single selection, a weighted average, and an expected value to convert the probability of developmental stage classification to dental age. One hundred and fifty-seven panoramic radiographs were used to compare automatic and manual human experts’ dental age calculations. Results Dental germ detection was achieved with a mean average precision of 98.26% and dental germ classifiers for single and multi-root were achieved with a Top-3 accuracy of 98.46% and 98.36%, respectively. The mean absolute errors between the automatic and manual dental age calculations using single selection, weighted average, and expected value were 0.274, 0.261, and 0.396, respectively. The weighted average was better than the other methods and was accurate by less than one developmental stage error. Conclusion Our study demonstrates the feasibility of automatic dental age calculation using panoramic radiographs and a two-stage deep learning approach with a clinically acceptable level of accuracy.

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