Artificial Intelligence for Root Canal Orifice Identification Using Dental Operating Microscope Images: A Preliminary Evaluation
To evaluate the diagnostic performance of artificial intelligence (AI) in detecting root canal orifices using images captured with a dental operating microscope (DOM). A total of 80 human maxillary first and second molars were included in the study. After preparing traditional access cavities, root canal orifices were identified under a dental operating microscope (DOM) at 21.25x magnification. Following orifice identification, video recordings were obtained using the DOM, from which a total of 1527 frames were randomly selected for analysis. The root canal orifices in these frames were manually labelled using CranioCatch labeling software (CranioCatch, Eski & scedil;ehir, Turkey). In the binary classification task, the system correctly identified 502 out of 526 root canal orifices, yielding an accuracy of 91%. The YOLO-based CNN demonstrated high accuracy and sensitivity in detecting root canal orifices from DOM images.
- Dergi
- AUSTRALIAN ENDODONTIC JOURNAL
- Yıl
- 2025
- Cilt
- 51
- Sayı
- 2
- Sayfa
- 407-414
- ISSN
- 1329-1947
- eISSN
- 1747-4477
- DOI
- 10.1111/aej.12955
- WoS UID
- WOS:001499912300001