3DTeethSeg'22: 3D Teeth Scan Segmentation and Labeling Challenge

Teeth localization, segmentation, and labeling from intra-oral 3D scans are essential tasks in modern dentistry to enhance dental diagnostics, treatment planning, and population-based studies on oral health. However, developing automated algorithms for teeth analysis presents significant challenges due to variations in dental anatomy, imaging protocols, and limited availability of publicly accessible data. To address these challenges, the 3DTeethSeg'22 challenge was organized in conjunction with the International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) in 2022, with a call for algorithms tackling teeth localization, segmentation, and labeling from intraoral 3D scans. A dataset comprising a total of 1800 scans from 900 patients was prepared, and each tooth was individually annotated by a human-machine hybrid algorithm. A total of 6 algorithms were evaluated on this dataset. In this study, we present the evaluation results of the 3DTeethSeg'22 challenge. The 3DTeethSeg'22 challenge code can be accessed at: https://github.com/abenhamadou/3DTeethSeg22_challenge

Teeth3DS: a benchmark for teeth segmentation and labeling from intra-oral 3D scans

Teeth segmentation and labeling are critical components of Computer-Aided Dentistry (CAD) systems. Indeed, before any orthodontic or prosthetic treatment planning, a CAD system needs to first accurately segment and label each instance of teeth visible in the 3D dental scan, this is to avoid time-consuming manual adjustments by the dentist. Nevertheless, developing such an automated and accurate dental segmentation and labeling tool is very challenging, especially given the lack of publicly available datasets or benchmarks. This article introduces the first public benchmark, named Teeth3DS, which has been created in the frame of the 3DTeethSeg 2022 MICCAI challenge to boost the research field and inspire the 3D vision research community to work on intra-oral 3D scans analysis such as teeth identification, segmentation, labeling, 3D modeling and 3D reconstruction. Teeth3DS is made of 1800 intra-oral scans (23999 annotated teeth) collected from 900 patients covering the upper and lower jaws separately, acquired and validated by orthodontists/dental surgeons with more than 5 years of professional experience.