Dental plaque quantification using mean-shift-based image segmentation

Abstract

There is need to quantify the dental plaque in order to keep fit and prevent occurrence from vital diseases. Dental plaque quantification is very crucial to patients, dentists as well as researchers. This paper presented a method to automatically quantifying the dental plaque in digital tooth images using mean shift. The proposed approach was applied to a clinical database consisting of 30 objects. The experimental results show that the proposed method provided accurately quantitative measurement of dental plaque compared with that of traditional manual measurement indices of dental plaque.