Nature Communications (Apr 2022)

A fully automatic AI system for tooth and alveolar bone segmentation from cone-beam CT images

  • Zhiming Cui,
  • Yu Fang,
  • Lanzhuju Mei,
  • Bojun Zhang,
  • Bo Yu,
  • Jiameng Liu,
  • Caiwen Jiang,
  • Yuhang Sun,
  • Lei Ma,
  • Jiawei Huang,
  • Yang Liu,
  • Yue Zhao,
  • Chunfeng Lian,
  • Zhongxiang Ding,
  • Min Zhu,
  • Dinggang Shen

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-29637-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Accurate delineation of individual teeth and alveolar bones from dental cone-beam CT images is an essential step in digital dentistry for precision dental healthcare. Here, the authors present a deep learning system for efficient, precise, and fully automatic segmentation of real-patient CBCT images presenting highly variable appearances.