Efficacy of machine learning assisted dental age assessment in local population

Te Ju Wu, Chia Ling Tsai, Yin Hua Huang, Tzuo Yau Fan, Yueh Peng Chen*

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Introduction: Although the dental age assessment is commonly applied in forensic and maturity evaluation, the long-standing dilemma from population differences has limited its application. Objectives: This study aimed to verify the efficacy of the machine learning (ML) to build up the dental age standard of a local population. Methods: We retrospectively studied 2052 panoramic films retrieved from healthy Taiwanese children aged 2.6–17.7 years with comparable sizes in each age-group. The recently reported Han population-based standard (H method) served as the control condition. To develop and validate ML models, random divisions of the sample in an 80%–20% ratio repeated 20 times. The model performances were compared with the H method, Demirjian's method, and Willems's method. Results: The ML-assisted models provided more accurate age prediction than those non-ML-assisted methods. The range of errors was effectively reduced to less than one per year in the ML models. Furthermore, the consistent agreements among the age groups from preschool to adolescence were reported for the first time. The Gaussian process regression was the best ML model; of the non-ML modalities, the H method was the most efficacious, followed by the Demirjian's method and Willems's methods. Conclusion: The ML-assisted dental age assessment is helpful to provide customized standards to a local population with more accurate estimations in preschool and adolescent age groups than do studied conventional methods. In addition, the earlier complete tooth developments were also observed in present study. To construct more reliable dental maturity models in the future, additional environment-related factors should be taken into account.

原文英語
文章編號102148
期刊Legal Medicine
59
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出版狀態已出版 - 11 2022

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