Multivariate image analysis of laser-induced photothermal imaging used for detection of caries tooth

Ashraf F. El-Sherif; Wessam M. Abdel Aziz; Yasser H. El-Sharkawy

doi:10.1117/12.860032

7 September 2010 Multivariate image analysis of laser-induced photothermal imaging used for detection of caries tooth

Ashraf F. El-Sherif, Wessam M. Abdel Aziz, Yasser H. El-Sharkawy

Proceedings Volume 7798, Applications of Digital Image Processing XXXIII; 77981R (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.860032
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2010, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Time-resolved photothermal imaging has been investigated to characterize tooth for the purpose of discriminating between normal and caries areas of the hard tissue using thermal camera. Ultrasonic thermoelastic waves were generated in hard tissue by the absorption of fiber-coupled Q-switched Nd:YAG laser pulses operating at 1064 nm in conjunction with a laser-induced photothermal technique used to detect the thermal radiation waves for diagnosis of human tooth. The concepts behind the use of photo-thermal techniques for off-line detection of caries tooth features were presented by our group in earlier work. This paper illustrates the application of multivariate image analysis (MIA) techniques to detect the presence of caries tooth. MIA is used to rapidly detect the presence and quantity of common caries tooth features as they scanned by the high resolution color (RGB) thermal cameras. Multivariate principal component analysis is used to decompose the acquired three-channel tooth images into a two dimensional principal components (PC) space. Masking score point clusters in the score space and highlighting corresponding pixels in the image space of the two dominant PCs enables isolation of caries defect pixels based on contrast and color information. The technique provides a qualitative result that can be used for early stage caries tooth detection. The proposed technique can potentially be used on-line or real-time resolved to prescreen the existence of caries through vision based systems like real-time thermal camera. Experimental results on the large number of extracted teeth as well as one of the thermal image panoramas of the human teeth voltanteer are investigated and presented.

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Ashraf F. El-Sherif, Wessam M. Abdel Aziz, and Yasser H. El-Sharkawy "Multivariate image analysis of laser-induced photothermal imaging used for detection of caries tooth", Proc. SPIE 7798, Applications of Digital Image Processing XXXIII, 77981R (7 September 2010); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.860032

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