Deep Learning-Based Detection of Impacted Teeth on Panoramic Radiographs.

Abstract

The aim is to detect impacted teeth in panoramic radiology by refining the pretrained MedSAM model. Impacted teeth are dental issues that can cause complications and are diagnosed via radiographs. We modified SAM model for individual tooth segmentation using 1016 X-ray images. The dataset was split into training, validation, and testing sets, with a ratio of 16:3:1. We enhanced the SAM model to automatically detect impacted teeth by focusing on the tooth's center for more accurate results. With 200 epochs, batch size equals to 1, and a learning rate of 0.001, random images trained the model. Results on the test set showcased performance up to an accuracy of 86.73%, F1-score of 0.5350, and IoU of 0.3652 on SAM-related models. This study fine-tunes MedSAM for impacted tooth segmentation in X-ray images, aiding dental diagnoses. Further improvements on model accuracy and selection are essential for enhancing dental practitioners' diagnostic capabilities.