Dentistry and Image Processing: A Scientific Approach

Medical image processing is essential in many fields of medical research and clinical practices because it greatly facilitates early detection and diagnosis of diseases. This book an add-on approach in the area of medical image analysis for diagnosis of diseases in oral radiology using dental X rays in dentistry. Dental X-ray has played an important role in human identification. Particularly, in cases of severe accidents, Plane crash, earthquake, etc. Wherein other identification clues like fingerprint, iris, etc. are not available for identification of missing or unidentified persons and moreover dental features remain more or less in variant over time. The purpose of dental image processing is to match the post-mortem (PM)radio graph with the ante-mortem (AM)radio graph based on some characteristic or feature of the radio graph. The dental images acquired may be of poor quality and contrast. Hence it is important to first enhance the quality of image and there after various segmentation algorithms are applied to the enhanced dental image.