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Wenjin Zhong¹, XiaoXiao Ren², HanWen Zhang²

¹Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. wenjin.zhong@hdr.mq.edu.au.

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A new AI model, GCNet, improves dental X-ray analysis by accurately segmenting teeth, even with limited data and noisy images. This helps dentists better understand tooth shape and growth trends.

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Area of Science:

Medical Imaging
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision

Background:

Accurate tooth segmentation from dental X-rays is crucial for diagnosing shape and growth.
Challenges include small datasets, noise, and blurred boundaries, hindering model generalizability and leading to overfitting.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop a novel model, GCNet, for robust and precise tooth segmentation in dental X-rays.
To address limitations of existing models in handling noisy data and small datasets.

Main Methods:

Proposed Grouped Attention and Cross-Layer Fusion Network (GCNet) with Grouped Global Attention (GGA) and Cross-Layer Fusion (CLF) modules.
GGA modules capture and group texture/contour features.
CLF modules integrate features with deep semantic information for enhanced prediction.

Main Results:

GCNet achieved superior performance on the Children's Dental Panoramic Radiographs dataset.
Achieved a Dice coefficient of 0.9338, sensitivity of 0.9426, and specificity of 0.9821.
Demonstrated clearer segmentation boundaries compared to GT-U-Net and Teeth U-Net.

Conclusions:

GCNet offers stable and precise segmentation for small-scale dental X-ray datasets.
The model effectively handles noise and individual data variations.
GCNet shows significant potential for improving dental diagnostic tools.