METHOD FOR LOCATING AN INTERPROXIMAL TOOTH REGION

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for locating one or more interproximal tooth regions in a digital tooth image.

SOLUTION: The method includes generating the digital tooth image from a fluorescence image of one or more teeth and a reflectance image of the one or more teeth, so as to combine image data from the fluorescence and reflectance images. The digital tooth image has intensity values for pixels corresponding to the one or more teeth and background. The method identifies one or more tooth regions by processing the digital tooth image and locates the one or more interproximal tooth regions according to the one or more identified tooth regions.

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