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Record W4407176951 · doi:10.71168/ndo.01.01.107

Is Artificial Intelligence the future of Dental Radiology?

2024· article· en· W4407176951 on OpenAlexaff
Abhishek Kumar

Bibliographic record

VenueNL Journal of Dentistry and Oral Sciences · 2024
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldDentistry
TopicDental Radiography and Imaging
Canadian institutionsThe Journal of Student Science and Technology
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMedical physicsRadiologyMedicineArtificial intelligenceComputer science

Abstract

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The integration of AI is anticipated to bring a major transformation to the quality, value, and impact of radiology on patient care and population health, as well as radiologists' workflows, over the next decade.AI technologies are already being applied across various dental specialties, including orthodontics.There are various applications of AI in Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology.AI is expected to ease the daily workload of physicians and reduce the incidence of misdiagnosis or underdiagnosis in dental practice.Although AI systems are a valuable resource in both dentistry and dental education, it's crucial to recognize that these technological advancements stem from human innovation and discovery.The ability of a machine to mimic intelligent human behaviors to perform complicated tasks like problem-solving, object and word recognition, and decision-making is known as artificial intelligence or AI [1,2].AI has gained popularity recently in several areas, including dentistry, where its uses in oral and maxillofacial imaging show significant promise.Because radiology creates digitally coded images, integrating AI into medical procedures is much simpler [3].Convolutional neural networks, which are capable of handling tasks including image categorization, detection, segmentation, registration, creation, and refinement, are the main focus of recent studies in oral and maxillofacial radiology [4].In this field, artificial intelligence systems have been developed for image analysis, forensic dentistry, radiography diagnosis, and picture quality enhancement [4].However, obtaining useful results necessitates large data sets, and oral and maxillofacial radiologists play a critical role in creating reliable and consistent datasets, which can take a lot of time.The use of AI is expected to bring about a dramatic revolution in the next ten years regarding the workflows of radiologists and the impact of radiology on population health and patient care.Dentists need to use their skills to evaluate patients, choose the best course of treatment, and make clinically sound prognostic judgments.They might, however, occasionally lack the expertise needed to act swiftly and decisively in clinical decisions.Applications of AI can be useful tools for improving performance and decision-making.AI is already being used in several dental specializations, such as orthodontics.The majority of current research focuses on artificial intelligence (AI) models that use artificial neural networks (ANNs) and convolutional neural networks (CNNs) [5].AI developments are anticipated to lessen the everyday burden on healthcare professionals and lower the number of dental misdiagnoses and underdiagnoses.Radiological image research encompasses tasks such as segmenting and classifying teeth, automatically labeling anatomical structures, performing cephalometric analysis, detecting early dental diseases and periodontal conditions, and using jaw radiographs to diagnose specific diseases like osteoporosis [6].

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.006
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.012
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Commentary · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.008
Threshold uncertainty score0.033

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0060.012
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0020.002
Science and technology studies0.0010.012
Scholarly communication0.0080.009
Open science0.0020.002
Research integrity0.0070.007
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0080.003

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.

Opus teacher head0.030
GPT teacher head0.333
Teacher spread0.302 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreCommentary

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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