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Deep learning based prediction of necessity for orthognathic surgery of skeletal malocclusion using cephalogram in
WooSang Shin1,2, Han-Gyeol Yeom3, Ga Hyung Lee4
1Safety System Research Group, Korea Institute of Industrial Technology (KITECH), Gyeongsan, Korea.
Background:
Posteroanterior and lateral cephalogram have been widely used for evaluating the necessity of orthognathic surgery. The purpose of this study was to develop a deep learning network to automatically predict the need for orthodontic surgery using cephalogram.
Methods:
The cephalograms of 840 patients (Class ll: 244, Class lll: 447, Facial asymmetry: 149) complaining about dentofacial dysmorphosis and/or a malocclusion were included. Patients who did not require orthognathic surgery were classified as Group I (622 patients-Class ll: 221, Class lll: 312, Facial asymmetry: 89). Group II (218 patients-Class ll: 23, Class lll: 135, Facial asymmetry: 60) was set for cases requiring surgery. A dataset was extracted using random sampling and was composed of training, validation, and test sets. The ratio of the sets was 4:1:5. PyTorch was used as the framework for the experiment.
Results:
Subsequently, 394 out of a total of 413 test data were properly classified. The accuracy, sensitivity, and specificity were 0.954, 0.844, and 0.993, respectively.
Conclusion:
It was found that a convolutional neural network can determine the need for orthognathic surgery with relative accuracy when using cephalogram.
