Robust Estimation of the Chronological Age of Children and Adolescents Using Tooth Geometry Indicators and POD-GP

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dc.abstract.enDetermining the chronological age of children or adolescents is becoming an extremely necessary and important issue. Correct age-assessment methods are especially important in the process of international adoption and in the case of immigrants without valid documents confirming their identity. It is well known that traditional, analog methods widely used in clinical evaluation are burdened with a high error rate and are characterized by low accuracy. On the other hand, new digital approaches appear in medicine more and more often, which allow the increase of the accuracy of these estimates, and thus equip doctors with a tool for reliable estimation of the chronological age of children and adolescents. In this study, the work on a fast and effective metamodel is continued. Metamodels have one great advantage over all other analog and quasidigital methods—if they are well trained, a priori, on a representative set of samples, then in the age-assessment phase, results are obtained in a fraction of a second and with little error (reduced to ±7.5 months). In the here-proposed method, the standard deviation for each estimate is additionally obtained, which allows the assessment of the certainty of each result. In this study, 619 pantomographic photos of 619 patients (296 girls and 323 boys) of different ages were used. In the numerical procedure, on the other hand, a metamodel based on the Proper Orthogonal Decomposition (POD) and Gaussian processes (GP) were utilized. The accuracy of the trained model was up to 95%.
dc.affiliationWydział Inżynierii Środowiska i Inżynierii Mechanicznej
dc.affiliation.instituteKatedra Inżynierii Biosystemów
dc.contributor.authorZaborowicz, Katarzyna
dc.contributor.authorGarbowski, Tomasz
dc.contributor.authorBiedziak, Barbara
dc.contributor.authorZaborowicz, Maciej
dc.date.access2026-02-24
dc.date.accessioned2026-03-05T12:50:46Z
dc.date.available2026-03-05T12:50:46Z
dc.date.copyright2022-03-03
dc.date.issued2022
dc.description.abstract<jats:p>Determining the chronological age of children or adolescents is becoming an extremely necessary and important issue. Correct age-assessment methods are especially important in the process of international adoption and in the case of immigrants without valid documents confirming their identity. It is well known that traditional, analog methods widely used in clinical evaluation are burdened with a high error rate and are characterized by low accuracy. On the other hand, new digital approaches appear in medicine more and more often, which allow the increase of the accuracy of these estimates, and thus equip doctors with a tool for reliable estimation of the chronological age of children and adolescents. In this study, the work on a fast and effective metamodel is continued. Metamodels have one great advantage over all other analog and quasidigital methods—if they are well trained, a priori, on a representative set of samples, then in the age-assessment phase, results are obtained in a fraction of a second and with little error (reduced to ±7.5 months). In the here-proposed method, the standard deviation for each estimate is additionally obtained, which allows the assessment of the certainty of each result. In this study, 619 pantomographic photos of 619 patients (296 girls and 323 boys) of different ages were used. In the numerical procedure, on the other hand, a metamodel based on the Proper Orthogonal Decomposition (POD) and Gaussian processes (GP) were utilized. The accuracy of the trained model was up to 95%.</jats:p>
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dc.description.volume19
dc.identifier.doi10.3390/ijerph19052952
dc.identifier.issn1660-4601
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dc.languageen
dc.relation.ispartofInternational Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
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dc.subject.enchronological age
dc.subject.endental age
dc.subject.enage assessment
dc.subject.endigital pantomography
dc.subject.endigital image analysis
dc.subject.enartificial intelligence
dc.subject.enGaussian processes
dc.subject.enproper orthogonal decomposition
dc.titleRobust Estimation of the Chronological Age of Children and Adolescents Using Tooth Geometry Indicators and POD-GP
dc.title.volumeSpecial Issue Child and Adolescent Well-Being: Perspectives from Research and Clinical Practice
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