%0 Journal Article
%@ 2227-9032
%A Fatima, Anum
%A Shafi, Imran
%A Afzal, Hammad
%A Mahmood, Khawar
%A Díez, Isabel de la Torre
%A Lipari, Vivian
%A Brito Ballester, Julién
%A Ashraf, Imran
%D 2023
%F uninimx:5663
%J Healthcare
%K Mask-RCNN; MobileNet; deep learning; dental disease detection
%N 3
%P 347
%T Deep Learning-Based Multiclass Instance Segmentation for Dental Lesion Detection
%U http://repositorio.unini.edu.mx/id/eprint/5663/
%V 11
%X Automated dental imaging interpretation is one of the most prolific areas of research using artificial intelligence. X-ray imaging systems have enabled dental clinicians to identify dental diseases. However, the manual process of dental disease assessment is tedious and error-prone when diagnosed by inexperienced dentists. Thus, researchers have employed different advanced computer vision techniques, as well as machine and deep learning models for dental disease diagnoses using X-ray imagery. In this regard, a lightweight Mask-RCNN model is proposed for periapical disease detection. The proposed model is constructed in two parts: a lightweight modified MobileNet-v2 backbone and region-based network (RPN) are proposed for periapical disease localization on a small dataset. To measure the effectiveness of the proposed model, the lightweight Mask-RCNN is evaluated on a custom annotated dataset comprising images of five different types of periapical lesions. The results reveal that the model can detect and localize periapical lesions with an overall accuracy of 94%, a mean average precision of 85%, and a mean insection over a union of 71.0%. The proposed model improves the detection, classification, and localization accuracy significantly using a smaller number of images compared to existing methods and outperforms state-of-the-art approaches