X-ray Image Analysis For Dental Age Evaluation

Abstract

opted for a structural analysis approach, which is described in this article, along with the other image-processing steps that precede and succeed it. We have focused our study on molar stages D through H. we Present a semi-automatic system of dental age evahation from digitized X-ray pictures. The image segmentation, contour extraction and coding, structural pattern recognition, and qualitative criteria analysis modules implemented are described. 11. Preprocessing of X-ray images We have worked on the most developed molar stages. The results, based on a limited set of 30 radiographs, show that we can achieve better performance than human experts.