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ArticleBioengineering (Basel, Switzerland)2025

Detection of Architectural Dysplastic Features from Histopathological Imagery of Oral Mucosa Using Neural Networks.

Watchanan Chantapakul, Sirikanlaya Vetchaporn, Sansanee Auephanwiriyakul, Nipon Theera-Umpon, Ritipong Wongkhuenkaew, Uklid Yeesarapat, Nutchapon Chamusri, Mansuang Wongsapai

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Article in Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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1 citing paper in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Watchanan ChantapakulBiomedical Engineering Institute, and the Biomedical Engineering and Innovation Research Center, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand.ORCID 0000-0001-7420-1161
Sirikanlaya VetchapornIntercountry Centre for Oral Health, Department of Health, Ministry of Public Health, Chiang Mai 50000, Thailand.
Sansanee AuephanwiriyakulBiomedical Engineering Institute, and the Biomedical Engineering and Innovation Research Center, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand.ORCID 0000-0002-6639-7165
Nipon Theera-UmponBiomedical Engineering Institute, and the Biomedical Engineering and Innovation Research Center, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand.ORCID 0000-0002-2951-9610
Ritipong WongkhuenkaewBiomedical Engineering Institute, and the Biomedical Engineering and Innovation Research Center, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand.ORCID 0009-0001-2426-0347
Uklid YeesarapatDepartment of Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand.
Nutchapon ChamusriDepartment of Oral Biology and Diagnostic Sciences, Faculty of Dentistry, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand.ORCID 0000-0002-7024-1884
Mansuang WongsapaiIntercountry Centre for Oral Health, Department of Health, Ministry of Public Health, Chiang Mai 50000, Thailand.ORCID 0009-0000-0523-1375

Funding

Intercountry Centre for Oral Health, Department of Health, Ministry of Public Health contract id 11/2567
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Oral cancer is a serious illness, but it is potentially curable if early detection can be achieved successfully. Oral epithelial dysplasia (OED), which is a precursor to oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC), can provide abnormal characteristics to diagnose the risk of developing oral cancer. This paper proposes a neural network architecture for detecting dysplastic features of epithelial architecture, including irregular epithelial stratification and bulbous rete ridges. The different combinations of atrous convolution, batch normalization, global pooling, and dropout are discussed regarding their effects, along with an ablation study. A signature library containing image patches was constructed and utilized to train the models. The best-performing model in the validation set attained an average accuracy of 97.52%. The results of the blind test from the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves show that the best model reached the best probability of detection, 0.8571, for irregular epithelial stratifications and 0.8462 for the bulbous rete ridges.

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bulbous rete ridgesconvolutional neural networkshistopathological imageirregular epithelial stratificationsoral epithelial dysplasia

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PMID40150681
PMCPMC11939466

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