不对称
下颌骨(节肢动物口器)
髁突
口腔正畸科
点式的
数学
人工智能
计算机科学
医学
物理
生物
数学分析
植物
量子力学
属
作者
Yi Fan,Yungeng Zhang,Gui Chen,Wei He,Guangying Song,Harold Matthews,Peter Claes,Yuru Pei,Hongbin Zha,Anthony Penington,Nicky Kilpatrick,Paul M. Schneider,Ruoping Jiang,Tianmin Xu
标识
DOI:10.1016/j.ajodo.2021.07.014
摘要
This study aimed to develop an automatic pipeline for analyzing mandibular shape asymmetry in 3-dimensions.Forty patients with skeletal Class I pattern and 80 patients with skeletal Class III pattern were used. The mandible was automatically segmented from the cone-beam computed tomography images using a U-net deep learning network. A total of 17,415 uniformly sampled quasi-landmarks were automatically identified on the mandibular surface via a template mapping technique. After alignment with the robust Procrustes superimposition, the pointwise surface-to-surface distance between original and reflected mandibles was visualized in a color-coded map, indicating the location of asymmetry. The degree of overall mandibular asymmetry and the asymmetry of subskeletal units were scored using the root-mean-squared-error between the left and right sides. These asymmetry parameters were compared between the skeletal Class I and skeletal Class III groups.The mandible shape was significantly more asymmetrical in patients with skeletal Class III pattern with positional asymmetry. The condyles were identified as the most asymmetric region in all groups, followed by the coronoid process and the ramus.This automated approach to quantify mandibular shape asymmetry will facilitate high-throughput image processing for big data analysis. The spatially-dense landmarks allow for evaluating mandibular asymmetry over the entire surface, which overcomes the information loss inherent in conventional linear distance or angular measurements. Precise quantification of the asymmetry can provide important information for individualized diagnosis and treatment planning in orthodontics and orthognathic surgery.
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