Primary study · included by 1 review

A novel AI model for detecting periapical lesion on CBCT: CBCT-SAM.

Chau 2025 · Chau Ka-Kei, Zhu Meilu, AlHadidi Abeer, et al. · Journal of dentistry · 2025

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Outcome this study informsPooled effectEvidenceCertainty
Risk difference for precision in segmentation tasks
AI segmentation algorithms (e.g. U-Net, YOLO, SAM) vs Expert annotation (reference standard)
RD 0.98 [0.97, 0.98]2 studies · 4039 participantsGRADE not reported
Pooled specificity
AI algorithms for dental detection tasks vs Reference standard (expert clinicians)
Specificity (proportion) 0.94 [0.86, 0.97]10 studies · 21516 participantsModerate
Precision in segmentation tasks (risk difference)
AI algorithms for dental segmentation tasks vs Expert annotation (reference standard)
RD 0.86 [-0.73, 2.46]2 studiesGRADE not reported
Pooled Dice similarity coefficient (DSC/F1)
AI segmentation algorithms (e.g. U-Net, YOLO, SAM) vs Expert annotation (reference standard)
Dice similarity coefficient 0.89 [0.13, 1.00]3 studies · 4539 participantsLow
Pooled sensitivity
AI algorithms for dental detection tasks vs Reference standard (expert clinicians)
Sensitivity (proportion) 0.85 [0.76, 0.91]8 studies · 11452 participantsModerate

1 including review in total.