Title
Automated classification of mandibular cortical bone on dental panoramic radiographs for early detection of osteoporosis
Abstract
Findings on dental panoramic radiographs (DPRs) have shown that mandibular cortical index (MCI) based on the morphology of mandibular inferior cortex was significantly correlated with osteoporosis. MCI on DPRs can be categorized into one of three groups and has the high potential for identifying patients with osteoporosis. However, most DPRs are used only for diagnosing dental conditions by dentists in their routine clinical work. Moreover, MCI is not generally quantified but assessed subjectively. In this study, we investigated a computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) system that automatically classifies mandibular cortical bone for detection of osteoporotic patients at early stage. First, an inferior border of mandibular bone was detected by use of an active contour method. Second, regions of interest including the cortical bone are extracted and analyzed for its thickness and roughness. Finally, support vector machine (SVM) differentiate cases into three MCI categories by features including the thickness and roughness. Ninety eight DPRs were used to evaluate our proposed scheme. The number of cases classified to Class I, II, and III by a dental radiologist are 56, 25 and 17 cases, respectively. Experimental result based on the leave-one-out cross-validation evaluation showed that the sensitivities for the classes I, II, and III were 94.6%, 57.7% and 94.1%, respectively. Distribution of the groups in the feature space indicates a possibility of MCI quantification by the proposed method. Therefore, our scheme has a potential in identifying osteoporotic patients at an early stage.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1117/12.2081512
Proceedings of SPIE
Keywords
Field
DocType
Dental panoramic radiographs,Osteoporosis,Computer-aided diagnosis,Mandibular cortical bone
Cortical bone,Computer vision,Early detection,Dental panoramic,Computer-aided diagnosis,Orthodontics,Radiography,Artificial intelligence,Osteoporosis,Physics
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
9414
0277-786X
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.39
3
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
kazuki horiba120.39
Chisako Muramatsu231735.56
Tatsuro Hayashi3629.01
tatsumasa fukui420.39
Takeshi Hara563979.10
Akitoshi Katsumata6419.56
Hiroshi Fujita78619.92