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Vision Transformer shows great superiority in medical image segmentation due to the ability in learning long-range dependency. For medical image segmentation from 3D data, such as computed tomography (CT), existing methods can be broadly…

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Achieving meticulous segmentation of tooth point clouds from intra-oral scans stands as an indispensable prerequisite for various orthodontic applications. Given the labor-intensive nature of dental annotation, a significant amount of data…

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This paper introduces an approach, named DFormer, for universal image segmentation. The proposed DFormer views universal image segmentation task as a denoising process using a diffusion model. DFormer first adds various levels of Gaussian…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Hefeng Wang , Jiale Cao , Rao Muhammad Anwer , Jin Xie , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Yanwei Pang

In recent years, transformer-based models have exhibited considerable potential in point cloud instance segmentation. Despite the promising performance achieved by existing methods, they encounter challenges such as instance query…

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Accurate teeth segmentation and orientation are fundamental in modern oral healthcare, enabling precise diagnosis, treatment planning, and dental implant design. In this study, we present a comprehensive approach to teeth segmentation and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Mou Deb , Madhab Deb , Mrinal Kanti Dhar

Accurate semantic segmentation of 3D dental models is essential for digital dentistry applications such as orthodontics and dental implants. However, due to complex tooth arrangements and similarities in shape among adjacent teeth, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Qiang He , Wentian Qu , Jiajia Dai , Changsong Lei , Shaofeng Wang , Feifei Zuo , Yajie Wang , Yaqian Liang , Xiaoming Deng , Cuixia Ma , Yong-Jin Liu , Hongan Wang

Segmentation of 3D medical images is a critical task for accurate diagnosis and treatment planning. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have dominated the field, achieving significant success in 3D medical image segmentation. However, CNNs…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-11 Canxuan Gang

Manual tooth segmentation of 3D tooth meshes is tedious and there is variations among dentists. %Manual tooth annotation of 3D tooth meshes is a tedious task. Several deep learning based methods have been proposed to perform automatic tooth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-26 Ananya Jana , Hrebesh Molly Subhash , Dimitris N. Metaxas

The ability to segment teeth precisely from digitized 3D dental models is an essential task in computer-aided orthodontic surgical planning. To date, deep learning based methods have been popularly used to handle this task. State-of-the-art…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Lingming Zhang , Yue Zhao , Deyu Meng , Zhiming Cui , Chenqiang Gao , Xinbo Gao , Chunfeng Lian , Dinggang Shen

The CNN-based methods have achieved impressive results in medical image segmentation, but they failed to capture the long-range dependencies due to the inherent locality of the convolution operation. Transformer-based methods are recently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Xiaohong Huang , Zhifang Deng , Dandan Li , Xueguang Yuan

Dental crowns are essential dental treatments for restoring damaged or missing teeth of patients. Recent design approaches of dental crowns are carried out using commercial dental design software. Once a scan of a preparation is uploaded to…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Ammar Alsheghri , Ying Zhang , Farnoosh Ghadiri , Julia Keren , Farida Cheriet , Francois Guibault

3D teeth segmentation, involving the localization of tooth instances and their semantic categorization in 3D dental models, is a critical yet challenging task in digital dentistry due to the complexity of real-world dentition. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Zhiguo Lu , Jianwen Lou , Mingjun Ma , Hairong Jin , Youyi Zheng , Kun Zhou

Accurately segmenting teeth and identifying the corresponding anatomical landmarks on dental mesh models are essential in computer-aided orthodontic treatment. Manually performing these two tasks is time-consuming, tedious, and, more…

Fundamental to improving Dental and Orthodontic treatments is the ability to quantitatively assess and cross-compare their outcomes. Such assessments require calculating distances and angles from 3D coordinates of dental landmarks. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-12-25 Brénainn Woodsend , Eirini Koufoudaki , Peter A. Mossey , Ping Lin

Understanding the morphological structure of medical images and precisely segmenting the region of interest or abnormality is an important task that can assist in diagnosis. However, the unique properties of medical imaging make clear…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Sungmin Kang , Jaeha Song , Jihie Kim

Teeth localization, segmentation, and labeling from intra-oral 3D scans are essential tasks in modern dentistry to enhance dental diagnostics, treatment planning, and population-based studies on oral health. However, developing automated…

Teeth segmentation is an essential task in dental image analysis for accurate diagnosis and treatment planning. While supervised deep learning methods can be utilized for teeth segmentation, they often require extensive manual annotation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Tomáš Kunzo , Viktor Kocur , Lukáš Gajdošech , Martin Madaras

Cone beam computed tomography (CBCT) is a common way of diagnosing dental related diseases. Accurate segmentation of 3D tooth is of importance for the treatment. Although deep learning based methods have achieved convincing results in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Chunshi Wang , Bin Zhao , Shuxue Ding

Visual segmentation seeks to partition images, video frames, or point clouds into multiple segments or groups. This technique has numerous real-world applications, such as autonomous driving, image editing, robot sensing, and medical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Xiangtai Li , Henghui Ding , Haobo Yuan , Wenwei Zhang , Jiangmiao Pang , Guangliang Cheng , Kai Chen , Ziwei Liu , Chen Change Loy

Digital orthodontics represents a prominent and critical application of computer vision technology in the medical field. So far, the labor-intensive process of collecting clinical data, particularly in acquiring paired 3D orthodontic teeth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Changsong Lei , Yaqian Liang , Shaofeng Wang , Jiajia Dai , Yong-Jin Liu