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ArticleJournal of personalized medicine2022

The Validity of Machine Learning Procedures in Orthodontics: What Is Still Missing?

Pietro Auconi, Tommaso Gili, Silvia Capuani, Matteo Saccucci, Guido Caldarelli, Antonella Polimeni, Gabriele Di Carlo

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Article in Journal of personalized medicine, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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Pietro AuconiPrivate Practice of Orthodontics, 00012 Rome, Italy.
Tommaso GiliNetworks Unit, IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca, Piazza San Francesco 19, 55100 Lucca, Italy.
Silvia CapuaniISC CNR, Department of Physics, University of Rome "Sapienza", P.le Aldo Moro 5, 00185 Rome, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-7863-1801
Matteo SaccucciDepartment of Oral and Maxillo-Facial Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome, Viale Regina Elena 287a, 00161 Rome, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-3635-281X
Guido CaldarelliISC CNR, Department of Physics, University of Rome "Sapienza", P.le Aldo Moro 5, 00185 Rome, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-9377-3616
Antonella PolimeniDepartment of Oral and Maxillo-Facial Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome, Viale Regina Elena 287a, 00161 Rome, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-2679-7607
Gabriele Di CarloDepartment of Oral and Maxillo-Facial Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome, Viale Regina Elena 287a, 00161 Rome, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-8039-7022

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Artificial intelligence (AI) models and procedures hold remarkable predictive efficiency in the medical domain through their ability to discover hidden, non-obvious clinical patterns in data. However, due to the sparsity, noise, and time-dependency of medical data, AI procedures are raising unprecedented issues related to the mismatch between doctors' mentalreasoning and the statistical answers provided by algorithms. Electronic systems can reproduce or even amplify noise hidden in the data, especially when the diagnosis of the subjects in the training data set is inaccurate or incomplete. In this paper we describe the conditions that need to be met for AI instruments to be truly useful in the orthodontic domain. We report some examples of computational procedures that are capable of extracting orthodontic knowledge through ever deeper patient representation. To have confidence in these procedures, orthodontic practitioners should recognize the benefits, shortcomings, and unintended consequences of AI models, as algorithms that learn from human decisions likewise learn mistakes and biases.

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artificial intelligencecomplexitymachine learningorthodonticsprognosis optimization

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PMID35743742
PMCPMC9225071

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