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Efficacy of the methods of age determination using artificial intelligence in panoramic radiographs - a systematic
Tania Camila Niño-Sandoval1, Ana Milena Doria-Martinez2, Ruby Amparo Vásquez Escobar3
1Research center of the Institute National of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences, Research Institute, Faculty of Medicine, University of Antioquia, Medellin, Colombia.
Abstract:
The aim of this systematic review is to analyze the literature to determine whether the methods of artificial intelligence are effective in determining age in panoramic radiographs. Searches without language and year limits were conducted in PubMed/Medline, Embase, Web of Science, and Scopus databases. Hand searches were also performed, and unpublished manuscripts were searched in specialized journals. Thirty-six articles were included in the analysis. Significant differences in terms of root mean square error and mean absolute error were found between manual methods and artificial intelligence techniques, favoring the use of artificial intelligence (p < 0.00001). Few articles compared deep learning methods with machine learning models or manual models. Although there are advantages of machine learning in data processing and deep learning in data collection and analysis, non-comparable data was a limitation of this study. More information is needed on the comparison of these techniques, with particular emphasis on time as a variable.
