Estimating Cervical Vertebral Maturation with a Lateral Cephalogram Using the Convolutional Neural Network

Recently, the estimation of bone maturation using deep learning has been actively conducted. However, many studies have considered hand–wrist radiographs, while a few studies have focused on estimating cervical vertebral maturation (CVM) using lateral cephalograms. This study proposes the use of dee...

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Autores principales: Eun-Gyeong Kim, Il-Seok Oh, Jeong-Eun So, Junhyeok Kang, Van Nhat Thang Le, Min-Kyung Tak, Dae-Woo Lee
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Publicado: MDPI AG 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://doaj.org/article/e3cfdb716ae74a2ba8d6e0bad5ae5bd6
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Sumario:Recently, the estimation of bone maturation using deep learning has been actively conducted. However, many studies have considered hand–wrist radiographs, while a few studies have focused on estimating cervical vertebral maturation (CVM) using lateral cephalograms. This study proposes the use of deep learning models for estimating CVM from lateral cephalograms. As the second, third, and fourth cervical vertebral regions (denoted as C2, C3, and C4, respectively) are considerably smaller than the whole image, we propose a stepwise segmentation-based model that focuses on the C2–C4 regions. We propose three convolutional neural network-based classification models: a one-step model with only CVM classification, a two-step model with region of interest (ROI) detection and CVM classification, and a three-step model with ROI detection, cervical segmentation, and CVM classification. Our dataset contains 600 lateral cephalogram images, comprising six classes with 100 images each. The three-step segmentation-based model produced the best accuracy (62.5%) compared to the models that were not segmentation-based.