Artificial intelligence-based detection of dens invaginatus in panoramic radiographs

ObjectiveThe aim of this study was to automatically detect teeth with dens invaginatus (DI) in panoramic radiographs using deep learning algorithms and to compare the success of the algorithms.Materials and methodsFor this purpose, 400 panoramic radiographs with DI were collected from the faculty database and separated into 60% training, 20% validation and 20% test images. The training and validation images were labeled by oral, dental and maxillofacial radiologists and augmented with various augmentation methods, and the improved models were asked for the images allocated for the test phase and the results were evaluated according to performance measures including accuracy, sensitivity, F1 score and mean detection time.ResultsAccording to the test results, YOLOv8 achieved a precision, sensitivity and F1 score of 0.904 and was the fastest detection model with an average detection time of 0.041. The Faster R-CNN model achieved 0.912 precision, 0.904 sensitivity and 0.907 F1 score, with an average detection time of 0.1 s. The YOLOv9 algorithm showed the most successful performance with 0.946 precision, 0.930 sensitivity, 0.937 F1 score value and the average detection speed per image was 0.158 s.ConclusionAccording to the results obtained, all models achieved over 90% success. YOLOv8 was relatively more successful in detection speed and YOLOv9 in other performance criteria. Faster R-CNN ranked second in all criteria.