Machine learning concepts applied to oral pathology and oral medicine: A convolutional neural networks' approach.

In Journal of oral pathology & medicine : official publication of the International Association of Oral Pathologists and the American Academy of Oral Pathology

INTRODUCTION : Artificial intelligence models and networks can learn and process dense information in a short time, leading to an efficient, objective, and accurate clinical and histopathological analysis, which can be useful to improve treatment modalities and prognostic outcomes. This paper targets oral pathologists, oral medicinists, and head and neck surgeons to provide them with a theoretical and conceptual foundation of artificial intelligence-based diagnostic approaches, with a special focus on convolutional neural networks, the state-of-the-art in artificial intelligence and deep learning.

METHODS : The authors conducted a literature review, and the convolutional neural network's conceptual foundations and functionality were illustrated based on a unique interdisciplinary point of view.

CONCLUSION : The development of artificial intelligence-based models and computer vision methods for pattern recognition in clinical and histopathological image analysis of head and neck cancer has the potential to aid diagnosis and prognostic prediction.

Araújo Anna Luíza Damaceno, da Silva Viviane Mariano, Kudo Maíra Suzuka, de Souza Eduardo Santos Carlos, Saldivia-Siracusa Cristina, Giraldo-Roldán Daniela, Lopes Marcio Ajudarte, Vargas Pablo Agustin, Khurram Syed Ali, Pearson Alexander T, Kowalski Luiz Paulo, de Carvalho André Carlos Ponce de Leon Ferreira, Santos-Silva Alan Roger, Moraes Matheus Cardoso

2023-Jan-04

artificial intelligence, artificial neural network, deep learning, oral cancer, supervised learning