A benchmark for comparison of dental radiography analysis algorithms

作者：Wang Ching Wei^*; Huang Cheng Ta; Lee Jia Hong; Li Chung Hsing; Chang Sheng Wei; Siao Ming Jhih; Lai Tat Ming; Ibragimov Bulat; Vrtovec Tomaz; Ronneberger Olaf; Fischer Philipp; Cootes Tim F; Lindner Claudia

来源：Medical Image Analysis, 2016, 31: 63-76.

DOI：10.1016/j.media.2016.02.004

• Cephalometric tracing
• Anatomical segmentation and classification
• Bitewing radiography analysis
• Challenge and benchmark

Dental radiography plays an important role in clinical diagnosis, treatment and surgery. In recent years, efforts have been made on developing computerized dental X-ray image analysis systems for clinical usages. A novel framework for objective evaluation of automatic dental radiography analysis algorithms has been established under the auspices of the IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging 2015 Bitewing Radiography Caries Detection Challenge and Cephalometric X-ray Image Analysis Challenge. In this article, we present the datasets, methods and results of the challenge and lay down the principles for future uses of this benchmark. The main contributions of the challenge include the creation of the dental anatomy data repository of bitewing radiographs, the creation of the anatomical abnormality classification data repository of cephalometric radiographs, and the definition of objective quantitative evaluation for comparison and ranking of the algorithms. With, this benchmark, seven automatic methods for analysing cephalometric X-ray image and two automatic methods for detecting bitewing radiography caries have been compared, and detailed quantitative evaluation results are presented in this paper. Based on the quantitative evaluation results, we believe automatic dental radiography analysis is still a challenging and unsolved problem. The datasets and the evaluation software will be made available to the research community, further encouraging future developments in this field. (http://www-o.ntust.edu.

• 出版日期2016-7