Enhancing Caries Detection in Bitewing Radiographs Using YOLOv7

In conclusion, YOLOv7 outperformed YOLOv3 in car ies detection and increasing the image size did not enhance the model’s performance. Elevating the IoU from 50% to 75% and confidence threshold from 0.001 to 0.5 led to a reduction of the model’s performance, while simultaneously improving precision and reducing recall (minimizing false positive s and negatives) for carious lesion detection in bitewing radiographs.
Source: Journal of Digital Imaging - Category: Radiology Source Type: research