A Hybrid Method to Predict Success of Dental Implants

Background/Objectives: The market demand for dental implants is growing at a significant pace. Results obtained from real cases shows that some dental implants do not lead to success. Hence, the main problem is whether machine learning techniques can be successful in prediction of success of dental implants. Methods/Statistical Analysis: This paper presents a combined predictive model to evaluate the success of dental implants. The classifiers used in this model are W-J48, SVM, Neural Network, K-NN and Naïve Bayes. All internal parameters of each classifier are optimized. These classifiers are combined in a way that results in the highest possible accuracies. Results: The performance of the proposed method is compared with single classifiers. Results of our study show that the combinative approach can achieve higher performance than the best of the single classifiers. Using the combinative approach improves the sensitivity indicator by up to 13.3%. Conclusion/Application: Since diagnosis of patients whose implant does not lead to success is very important in implant surgery, the presented model can help surgeons to make a more reliable decision on level of success of implant operation prior to surgery.

@article{Moayeri2016,
  title     = {A Hybrid Method to Predict Success of Dental Implants},
  journal   = {International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications},
  volume    = {7},
  number    = {5},
  year      = {2016},
  publisher = {The Science and Information Organization},
  author    = {Reyhaneh Sadat Moayeri and Mehdi Khalili and Mahsa Nazari},
  doi       = {10.14569/IJACSA.2016.070501},
  url       = {https://doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2016.070501}
}