From Full and Partial Intraoral Scans to Crown Proposal: A Classification-Guided Restoration Assistance Pipeline
Single-unit crown restoration is among the most common procedures in clinical dentistry, with CAD/CAM workflows now designing crowns directly from intraoral scans. Partial scans are often preferred over full-arch scans for single-unit cases due to fewer stitching errors, yet most segmentation networks trained on full arches fail on partial scans, while end-to-end generative crown methods often produce over-smoothed surfaces that lose occlusal detail. We propose an end-to-end pipeline that takes a raw intraoral scan and target FDI tooth number as input and outputs an initial, patient-specific crown proposal for clinician refinement. The pipeline has three phases: (I) data preparation and pose standardization; (II) segmentation routed by scan type; and (III) crown proposal generation via context-aware retrieval and Blender-based fitting. We address partial-scan segmentation through a classify-then-align strategy: a DGCNN classifier categorizes the scan into one of five anatomical types, then coarse-to-fine RANSAC+ICP registration standardizes the jaw coordinate frame, followed by graph-cut optimization to refine tooth-gingival boundaries. Trained on 1,958 partial scans, the pipeline achieves macro-average DSC 0.9249, Recall 0.8919, and Precision 0.9615 across 17 semantic classes; a fine-tuned full-arch model reaches DSC 0.9347. The prepared tooth and its mesial and distal neighbors achieve DSC 0.9468-0.9569 with sub-millimeter Centroid Errors (0.2666-0.2774 mm). These centroids anchor a retrieval module using DGCNN embeddings and cosine similarity over neighboring and opposing teeth, followed by spline-guided alignment and Blender Python API refinement. The pipeline produces a preliminary crown shell in 2.5-3.5 minutes, offering a practical alternative to end-to-end generative approaches.
Code (0)
등록된 구현이 없습니다.
Similar Papers 제목 키워드 기반
VBCD: A Voxel-Based Framework for Personalized Dental Crown Design
The design of restorative dental crowns from intraoral scans is labor-intensive for dental technicians. To address this challenge, we propose a novel voxel-based framework for automated dental crown design (VBCD). The VB…
High-Fidelity 3D Tooth Reconstruction by Fusing Intraoral Scans and CBCT Data via a Deep Implicit Representation
High-fidelity 3D tooth models are essential for digital dentistry, but must capture both the detailed crown and the complete root. Clinical imaging modalities are limited: Cone-Beam Computed Tomography (CBCT) captures th…
A Critical Analysis of the Limitation of Deep Learning based 3D Dental Mesh Segmentation Methods in Segmenting Partial Scans
Tooth segmentation from intraoral scans is a crucial part of digital dentistry. Many Deep Learning based tooth segmentation algorithms have been developed for this task. In most of the cases, high accuracy has been achie…
Deep LearningSegmentationMADCrowner: Margin Aware Dental Crown Design with Template Deformation and Refinement
Dental crown restoration is one of the most common treatment modalities for tooth defect, where personalized dental crown design is critical. While computer-aided design (CAD) systems have notably enhanced the efficiency…
3D Dental Model Segmentation with Geometrical Boundary Preserving
3D intraoral scan mesh is widely used in digital dentistry diagnosis, segmenting 3D intraoral scan mesh is a critical preliminary task. Numerous approaches have been devised for precise tooth segmentation. Currently, the…
Segmentation