Automated Apical Periodontitis Detection on Panoramic Radiographs: Comparative Analysis of Modern Object Detectors and the Effect of Data Augmentation
Detecting apical periodontitis lesions on panoramic radiographs (PR) is challenging because lesions may be subtle and affected by anatomic superimposition, variable contrast, and restorative artifacts. This study compared five modern object detectors from the YOLOv8, YOLOv11, and RT-DETR families and quantified the eff...