Classification of periodontitis stage and grade using natural language processing techniques
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Periodontitis is a complex and microbiome-related inflammatory condition impacting dental supporting tissues. Emphasizing the potential of Clinical Decision Support Systems (CDSS), this study aims to facilitate early diagnosis of periodontitis by extracting patients' information collected as dental charts and notes. We developed a CDSS to predict the stage and grade of periodontitis using natural language processing (NLP) techniques including bidirectional encoder representation for transformers (BERT). We compared the performance of BERT with that of a baseline feature-engineered model. A secondary data analysis was conducted using 309 anonymized patient periodontal charts and corresponding clinician's notes obtained from the university periodontal clinic. After data preprocessing, we added a classification layer on top of the pre-trained BERT model to classify the clinical notes into their corresponding stage and grades. Then, we fine-tuned the pre-trained BERT model on 70% of our data. The performance of the model was evaluated on 32 unseen new patients' clinical notes. The results were compared with the output of a baseline feature-engineered algorithm coupled with MLP techniques to classify the stage and grade of periodontitis. Our proposed BERT model predicted the patients' stage and grade with 77% and 75% accuracy, respectively. MLP model showed that the accuracy of correct classification of stage and grade of the periodontitis on a set of 32 new unseen data was 59.4% and 62.5%, respectively. The BERT model could predict the periodontitis stage and grade on the same new dataset with higher accuracy (66% and 72%, respectively). The utilization of BERT in this context represents a groundbreaking application in dentistry, particularly in CDSS. Our BERT model outperformed baseline models, even with reduced information, promising efficient review of patient notes. This integration of advanced NLP techniques with CDSS frameworks holds potential for timely interventions, preventing complications and reducing healthcare costs.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it