EVALUATION OF THE PHARYNGEAL AIRWAY WITH ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ALGORITHMS DEVELOPED BY DEEP LEARNING FROM LATERAL CEPHALOMETRIC IMAGE

Year 2024, Volume: 10 Issue: 1, 1 - 7, 17.04.2024

Batuhan Kuleli Mehmet Uğurlu

Abstract

ABSTRACT
Objectives: The aim of this study is to investigate the success of pharyngeal airway detection using a special artificial intelligence algorithm on lateral cephalometric images obtained from cone beam computed tomography images.
Materials and Methods: The data set of our study was performed on the lateral cephalometric radiographs was obtained from cone beam computed tomography images of 1040 patients before orthodontic treatment using a special artificial intelligence algorithm and the segmentation method were applied with the free drawing tchnique and the pharyngeal airway was determined. Airway labeling on images was done using CranioCatch annotation software (CranioCatch, Eskişehir, Turkey).
Results: The artificial intelligence model was trained with the Yolov5x model as 500 epochs and 0.01 learning rate. Sensitivity, precision and F1 scores in the artifical intelligence model trained in the study were 1, 0.9903 and 0.9951 respectively.
Conclusion: The model in which we evaluated the pharyngeal airway was generally successful. Our study is promising for the development of future CBCT reporting systems. It is thought that these deep learning-based systems will save physicians time as a decision support mechanism in routine clinical practices. It is also anticipated that it will help in minimizing interobserver differences in the evaluation of the pharyngeal airway and inconsistencies that may occur in the evaluations made by observers at different times.

Keywords

Artificial Intelligence, CBCT, Deep learning, Pharyngeal airway

DERİN ÖĞRENMEYLE GELİŞTİRİLEN YAPAY ZEKA ALGORİTMALARIYLA LATERAL SEFALOMETRİK GÖRÜNTÜLER ÜZERİNDEN FARİNGEAL HAVA YOLUNUN DEĞERLENDİRİLMESİ

Abstract

ÖZET
Amaç: Bu çalışmanın amacı, konik ışınlı bilgisayarlı tomografi görüntülerinden elde edilen lateral sefalometrik görüntüler üzerinde özel bir yapay zeka algoritması kullanılarak faringeal hava yolu tespitinin başarısını araştırmaktır.
Gereç ve Yöntemler: Çalışmamızın veri seti, özel bir yapay zeka algoritması kullanılarak 1040 hastanın ortodontik tedavi öncesi konik ışınlı bilgisayarlı tomografi görüntülerinden elde edilen lateral sefalometrik radyografiler üzerinde gerçekleştirildi ve serbest çizim tekniği ile segmentasyon yöntemi uygulandı ve faringeal hava yolu belirlendi. Görüntüler üzerindeki hava yolu etiketlemesi CranioCatch yapay zeka yazılımı (CranioCatch, Eskisehir, Türkiye) kullanılarak yapıldı.
Bulgular: Yapay zeka modeli Yolov5x modeli ile 500 epoch ve 0,01 öğrenme oranıyla eğitildi. Çalışmada eğitilen yapay zeka modelinde duyarlılık, kesinlik ve F1 puanları sırasıyla 1, 0,9903 ve 0,9951 olarak gerçekleşti.
Sonuç: Faringeal hava yolunu değerlendirdiğimiz model genel olarak başarılıydı. Çalışmamız gelecekteki KIBT raporlama sistemlerinin geliştirilmesi açısından umut vericidir. Derin öğrenmeye dayalı bu sistemlerin rutin klinik uygulamalarda karar destek mekanizması olarak hekimlere zaman kazandıracağı düşünülmektedir. Ayrıca faringeal hava yolunun değerlendirilmesinde gözlemciler arası farklılıkların ve gözlemcilerin farklı zamanlarda yaptığı değerlendirmelerde oluşabilecek tutarsızlıkların en aza indirilmesine yardımcı olacağı öngörülmektedir.

Keywords

Yapay zeka, CBCT, Derin öğrenme, Faringeal havayolu

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