“…(5) the diagnosis of OPMDs such as solar cheilosis [53], oral lichen planus [41,46], leukoplakia [29,40,58], with a prediction of their course [43]; (6) aids to differential diagnosis by classifying the lesions as benign or precancerous [50]; normal mucosa or oral cancer [27,32,35,36,39,42,62]; or as different benign, premalignant and malignant lesions [31,33,39,46,59]; (7) classification of oral cancer [56]; and (8) development of oral cancer risk predictive models [42,47,48,51,55,60].…”