Rabeea Fatma Khan

Ms. Rabeea Fatma Khan

Computer Science, Kyonggi University, Suwon, Gyeonggi, Republic of Korea
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Academic Career Length

5Years (2022-Present)

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15 December 2022 in Sensors
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Muhammad UsmanMuhammad Usman
Muhammad Usman
ARAzka Rehman
Azka Rehman
ASAmal Muhammad Saleem
Amal Muhammad Saleem
RKRabeea Fatma Khan
Rabeea Fatma Khan
SBShi Sub Byon
Shi Sub Byon
YSYeong-Gil Shin
Yeong-Gil Shin
Accurate segmentation of mandibular canals in lower jaws is important in dental implantology. Medical experts manually determine the implant position and dimensions from 3D CT images to avoid damaging the mandibular nerve inside the canal. In this paper, we propose a novel dual-stage deep learning-based scheme for the automatic segmentation of the mandibular canal. In particular, we first enhance the CBCT scans by employing the novel histogram-based dynamic windowing scheme, which improves the visibility of mandibular canals. After enhancement, we designed 3D deeply supervised attention UNet architecture for localizing the Volumes Of Interest (VOIs), which contain the mandibular canals (i.e., left and right canals). Finally, we employed the Multi-Scale input Residual UNet (MSiR-UNet) architecture to segment the mandibular canals using VOIs accurately. The proposed method has been rigorously evaluated on 500 and 15 CBCT scans from our dataset and from the public dataset, respectively. The results demonstrate that our technique improves the existing performance of mandibular canal segmentation to a clinically acceptable range. Moreover, it is robust against the types of CBCT scans in terms of field of view.