English
Related papers

Related papers: Shape-preserving Tooth Segmentation from CBCT Imag…

200 papers

3D image segmentation is a recent and crucial step in many medical analysis and recognition schemes. In fact, it represents a relevant research subject and a fundamental challenge due to its importance and influence. This paper provides a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-22 Omar Boudraa

With the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence, intelligent dentistry for clinical diagnosis and treatment has become increasingly promising. As the primary clinical dentistry task, tooth structure segmentation for Cone-Beam Computed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Muyi Sun , Yifan Gao , Ziang Jia , Xingqun Qi , Qianli Zhang , Qian Liu , Tianzheng Deng

Cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) has become an invaluable imaging modality in dentistry, enabling 3D visualization of teeth and surrounding structures for diagnosis and treatment planning. Automated segmentation of dental structures in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Dominic LaBella , Keshav Jha , Jared Robbins , Esther Yu

The purpose of this study is to develop a deep learning based method that can automatically generate segmentations on cone-beam CT (CBCT) for head and neck online adaptive radiation therapy (ART), where expert-drawn contours in planning CT…

Medical Physics · Physics 2021-02-02 Xiao Liang , Howard Morgan , Dan Nguyen , Steve Jiang

Medical image segmentation, which aims to automatically extract anatomical or pathological structures, plays a key role in computer-aided diagnosis and disease analysis. Despite the problem has been widely studied, existing methods are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-01 Han Zhang , Lok Ming Lui

Tooth segmentation in Cone-Beam Computed Tomography (CBCT) remains challenging, especially for fine structures like root apices, which is critical for assessing root resorption in orthodontics. We introduce GEPAR3D, a novel approach that…

Accurate identification, localization, and segregation of teeth from Cone Beam Computed Tomography (CBCT) images are essential for analyzing dental pathologies. Modeling an individual tooth can be challenging and intricate to accomplish,…

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

Motion artifacts caused by prolonged acquisition time are a significant challenge in Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), hindering accurate tissue segmentation. These artifacts appear as blurred images that mimic tissue-like appearances,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-06 Sunyoung Jung , Yoonseok Choi , Mohammed A. Al-masni , Minyoung Jung , Dong-Hyun Kim

Accurate segmentation of mandibular canals in lower jaws is important in dental implantology. Medical experts determine the implant position and dimensions manually from 3D CT images to avoid damaging the mandibular nerve inside the canal.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-03 Azka Rehman , Muhammad Usman , Rabeea Jawaid , Amal Muhammad Saleem , Shi Sub Byon , Sung Hyun Kim , Byoung Dai Lee , Byung il Lee , Yeong Gil Shin

Deep learning offers a promising avenue for automating many recognition tasks in fields such as medicine and forensics. However, the black-box nature of these models hinders their adoption in high-stakes applications where trust and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Barkin Buyukcakir , Rocharles Cavalcante Fontenele , Reinhilde Jacobs , Jannick De Tobel , Patrick Thevissen , Dirk Vandermeulen , Peter Claes

Tooth segmentation from intraoral scans is a crucial part of digital dentistry. Many Deep Learning based tooth segmentation algorithms have been developed for this task. In most of the cases, high accuracy has been achieved, although, most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Ananya Jana , Aniruddha Maiti , Dimitris N. Metaxas

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

Topological correctness is critical for segmentation of tubular structures, which pervade in biomedical images. Existing topological segmentation loss functions are primarily based on the persistent homology of the image. They match the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Bo Wen , Haochen Zhang , Dirk-Uwe G. Bartsch , William R. Freeman , Truong Q. Nguyen , Cheolhong An

In this paper, we propose a novel deep learning framework for anatomy segmentation and automatic landmark- ing. Specifically, we focus on the challenging problem of mandible segmentation from cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) scans and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-10 Neslisah Torosdagli , Denise K. Liberton , Payal Verma , Murat Sincan , Janice S. Lee , Ulas Bagci

Deep learning empowers the mainstream medical image segmentation methods. Nevertheless current deep segmentation approaches are not capable of efficiently and effectively adapting and updating the trained models when new incremental…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Zhanghexuan Ji , Dazhou Guo , Puyang Wang , Ke Yan , Le Lu , Minfeng Xu , Jingren Zhou , Qifeng Wang , Jia Ge , Mingchen Gao , Xianghua Ye , Dakai Jin

This paper proposed a cutting-edge multiclass teeth segmentation architecture that integrates an M-Net-like structure with Swin Transformers and a novel component named Teeth Attention Block (TAB). Existing teeth image segmentation methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Afnan Ghafoor , Seong-Yong Moon , Bumshik Lee

Learning-based 3D shape segmentation is usually formulated as a semantic labeling problem, assuming that all parts of training shapes are annotated with a given set of tags. This assumption, however, is impractical for learning fine-grained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-14 Xiaogang Wang , Xun Sun , Xinyu Cao , Kai Xu , Bin Zhou

Semantic segmentation is a crucial task in medical image processing, essential for segmenting organs or lesions such as tumors. In this study we aim to improve automated segmentation in CBCTs through multi-task learning. To evaluate effects…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-03 Maximilian Ernst Tschuchnig , Julia Coste-Marin , Philipp Steininger , Michael Gadermayr

Tooth image segmentation is a cornerstone of dental digitization. However, traditional image encoders relying on fixed-resolution feature maps often lead to discontinuous segmentation and poor discrimination between target regions and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Xinxin Zhao , Jian Jiang , Yan Tian , Liqin Wu , Zhaocheng Xu , Teddy Yang , Yunuo Zou , Xun Wang