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ArticleOral diseases2026

OralSegNet: An Approach to Early Detection of Oral Disease Using Transfer Learning.

Pranta Barua, Md Rakibul Islam, Mahmud Uz Zaman, Adel Alenazi, Fawaz Alqahtani, Huda Abutayyem, Maher Al Shayeb, Ruba Odeh, Nesrine A Elsahn, Mohammad Khursheed Alam

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Pranta BaruaDepartment of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Chittagong, Chittagong, Bangladesh.
Md Rakibul IslamDepartment of Computing, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS (UTP), Perak Darul Ridzuan, Malaysia.
Mahmud Uz ZamanDepartment of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and Diagnostic Sciences, College of Dentistry, Prince Sattam Bin Abdullaziz University, Al-kharj, Saudi Arabia.
Adel AlenaziDepartment of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and Diagnostic Sciences, College of Dentistry, Prince Sattam Bin Abdullaziz University, Al-kharj, Saudi Arabia.
Fawaz AlqahtaniDepartment of Prosthetic Dental Sciences, College of Dentistry, Prince Sattam Bin Abdullaziz University, Al-kharj, Saudi Arabia.
Huda AbutayyemDepartment of Clinical Sciences, Center of Medical and Bio-Allied Health Sciences Research, College of Dentistry, Ajman University, Ajman, UAE.
Maher Al ShayebDepartment of Clinical Sciences, Center of Medical and Bio-Allied Health Sciences Research, College of Dentistry, Ajman University, Ajman, UAE.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3296-5945
Ruba OdehDepartment of Clinical Sciences, Center of Medical and Bio-Allied Health Sciences Research, College of Dentistry, Ajman University, Ajman, UAE.
Nesrine A ElsahnDepartment of Clinical Sciences, Center of Medical and Bio-Allied Health Sciences Research, College of Dentistry, Ajman University, Ajman, UAE.
Mohammad Khursheed AlamPreventive Dentistry Department, College of Dentistry, Jouf University, Sakaka, Saudi Arabia.

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Abstract

objectiveDeep learning-based segmentation system is proposed that exploits three variants of YOLOv11 architecture, namely YOLOv11n-seg, YOLOv11s-seg, and YOLOv11m-seg for automated detection and localization of the oral disease conditions from photographic intraoral images.

methodDataset has been created by combining publicly available data from sources like Roboflow resulting in an initial version (v1) having 582 images annotated at the pixel level. To mitigate class imbalance issues as well as increase generalization capability by the model, progressively this dataset was augmented to create version 2 (v2) and then further extended into version 3 (v3). Training was done in three separate stages: Feature extraction, partial fine-tuning, and full fine-tuning.

resultsYOLOv11m-seg model performed best in the partial fine-tuning phase with results of box mAP@50 = 0.521 and mask mAP@50 = 0.500. Training was done on Google Colab's free tier using an Intel Xeon CPU with 13 GB RAM, 15 GB T4 GPU, and 120 GB storage allowance.

conclusionsFor application, the best performing model was exported to ONNX format with NMS enabled and deployed as a fully client-side responsive web app built in React.js and ONNX Runtime Web. The tool enables both clinicians and non-experts to detect oral diseases from intraoral images with a single click.

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Deep LearningMouth DiseasesPhotography, DentalEarly DiagnosisHumansAIcariesdeep learninggingivitisinstance segmentationintraoral imagesmouth ulcerONNX deploymentperiodontitisYOLOv11

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PMID41207876
PMCPMC13125738

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