Segmentation of tooth enamel microstructure images using classical image processing and U-Net approaches
Giovani Bressan Fogalli,
Sérgio Roberto Peres Line,
Daniel Baum
Abstract:IntroductionTooth enamel is the hardest tissue in human organism, formed by prism layers in regularly alternating directions. These prisms form the Hunter–Schreger Band (HSB) pattern when under side illumination, which is composed of light and dark stripes resembling fingerprints. We have shown in previous works that HSB pattern is highly variable, seems to be unique for each tooth and can be used as a biometric method for human identification. Since this pattern cannot be acquired with sensors, the HSB region… Show more
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