Journal of Innovative Optical Health Sciences, Volume. 13, Issue 4, 2050014(2020)

Automated classification of dual channel dental imaging of auto-fluorescence and white lightby convolutional neural networks

Cheng Wang1,2, Haotian Qin1, Guangyun Lai3,4, Gang Zheng1,2, Huazhong Xiang1,2, Jun Wang3,4、*, and Dawei Zhang5,6
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  • 1Institute of Biomedical Optics and Optometry, Key Laboratory of Medical Optical Technology and Instrument Ministry of Education, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai 200093, P. R. China
  • 2Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Interventional Medical Device, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai 200093, P. R. China
  • 3Department of Pediatric Dentistry, Ninth People's Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200011, P. R. China
  • 4Shanghai Key Laboratory of Stomatology & Shanghai Research Institute of Stomatology, National Clinical Research Center of Stomatology, Shanghai 200011, P. R. China
  • 5Engineering Research Center of Optical Instrument and System Ministry of Education, Shanghai Key Laboratory Modern, Optical System of Shanghai, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai 200093, P. R. China
  • 6Shanghai Institute of Intelligent Science and Technology, Tongji University, Shanghai 200093, P. R. China
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    Prevention is the most effective way to reduce dental caries. In order to provide a simple way to achieve oral healthcare direction in daily life, dual Channel, portable dental Imaging system that combine white light with autofluorescence techniques was established, and then, a group of volunteers were recruited, 7200 tooth pictures of different dental caries stage and dental plaque were taken and collected. In this work, a customized Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have been designed to classify dental image with early stage caries and dental plaque. Eighty percentage (n=6000) of the pictures taken were used to supervised training of the CNNs based on the experienced dentists' advice and the rest 20% (n = 1200) were used to a test dataset to test the trained CNNs. The accuracy, sensitivity and specificity were calculated to evaluate performance of the CNNs. The accuracy for the early stage caries and dental plaque were 95.3% and 95.9%, respectively. These results shown that the designed image system combined the customized CNNs that could automatically and e±ciently find early caries and dental plaque on occlusal, lingual and buccal surfaces. Therefore, this will provide a novel approach to dental caries prevention for everyone in daily life.

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    Cheng Wang, Haotian Qin, Guangyun Lai, Gang Zheng, Huazhong Xiang, Jun Wang, Dawei Zhang. Automated classification of dual channel dental imaging of auto-fluorescence and white lightby convolutional neural networks[J]. Journal of Innovative Optical Health Sciences, 2020, 13(4): 2050014

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    Paper Information

    Received: Dec. 31, 2019

    Accepted: Mar. 31, 2020

    Published Online: Aug. 7, 2020

    The Author Email: Wang Jun (wangjun202@126.com)

    DOI:10.1142/s1793545820500145

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