KMID : 1024020230530040375
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Imaging Science in Dentistry 2023 Volume.53 No. 4 p.375 ~ p.381
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Diagnostic performance of stitched and non-stitched cross-sectional cone-beam computed tomography images of a non-displaced fracture of ovine mandibular bone
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Farzane Ostovarrad
Sadra Masali Markiyeh Zahra Dalili Kajan
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Abstract
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Purpose: This study assessed the diagnostic performance of stitched and non-stitched cross-sectional cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) images of non-displaced ovine mandibular fractures.
Materials and Methods: In this ex vivo study, non-displaced fractures were artificially created in 10 ovine mandibles (20 hemi-mandibles) using a hammer. The control group comprised 8 hemi-mandibles. The non-displaced fracture lines were oblique or vertical, <0.5 mm wide, 10-20 mm long, and only in the buccal or lingual cortex. Fracture lines in the ramus and posterior mandible were created to be at the interface or borders of the 2 stitched images. CBCT images were obtained from the specimens with an 80 mm ¡¿ 80 mm field of view before and after fracture induction.
OnDemand software (Cybermed, Seoul, Korea) was used for stitching the CBCT images. Four observers evaluated 56 (28 stitched and 28 non-stitched) images to detect fracture lines. The diagnostic performance of stitched and non-stitched images was assessed by calculating the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC).
Sensitivity and specificity values were also calculated (alpha = 0.05).
Results: The AUC was calculated to be 0.862 and 0.825 for the stitched and non-stitched images, respectively (P = 0.747). The sensitivity and specificity were 90% and 75% for the non-stitched images and 85% and 87% for the stitched images, respectively. The inter-observer reliability was shown by a Fleiss kappa coefficient of 0.79, indicating good agreement.
Conclusion: No significant difference was found in the diagnostic performance of stitched and non-stitched cross- sectional CBCT images of non-displaced fractures of the ovine mandible.
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KEYWORD
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Cone-Beam Computed Tomography, Fractures, Bone, Mandible, Imaging, Three dimensional
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