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Visualization of artificial intelligence applications in oral disease diagnosis: A bibliometric analysis.
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Abstract
Objectives: This study aims to perform a comprehensive visualization-based analysis of the research status, thematic hotspots, and developmental trends in AI-assisted oral disease diagnosis over the past two decades, thereby offering valuable references for future research in this fields. Material and methods: We conducted a bibliometric study with 2,131 documents extracted from the Web of Science Core Collection (2005-2025) using CiteSpace to systematically analyze publication trends, major countries, institutions, journals and co-citation patterns. Visualizations including collaboration networks, keyword co-occurrence clusters, citation bursts, and topic timelines showed the evolving intellectual structure and emerging research fronts in this area. Results: The number of annual publications grew exponentially and peaked at 519 in 2024. China, the United States and India ranked as the top three countries. Berlin-based institutions contributed 224 publications, representing 45.62% of the 491 outputs from the top ten productive institutions. Core keywords were identified through co-occurrence analysis, including "artificial intelligence", "deep learning", "machine learning", and "classification". Further cluster analysis formed 15 clusters, which were summarized into three major themes: clinical diseases, technical approaches, and cross-cutting integration. Burst analysis showed that "Computer-aided diagnosis" had the strongest burst (5.23), followed by "system" (4.75) and "extractions" (4.69). Conclusions: In this study, we used bibliometric visualization analysis to explore the evolution process and main research areas of AI-aided diagnosis for oral diseases between 2005 and 2025, identified new research areas, and provided useful guidance on future research and application topics.
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