The Computerized Establishing of Orthodontic Diagnosis through Radiographic Analysis

摘要

Our study presents an original radiographic image processing application, designed to establish the orthodontic diagnosis. The application was written in Java. It requires JSDK 1.5 and 10 Mb free on hard disk. All the data can be outputted in different formats (JPEG, GIF, PNG, HTML, RTF or PDF). It also supports multiple language tools (that can be added just as easily as the upgrades of the program). The software supports the most used orthodontic analysis for lateral and frontal cephalogram, orthopantomographies and wrist radiography. The orthodontist provides all the information needed to create the program, as well as the way of work, values interpretation and the way of taking the data. The software has a generic module and an intermediate language that allows it to understand almost any type of radiographic image. It contains several tools (distance measurements, image manipulation and colorimetric tools). All the images are ordered by categories, physicians and patients. Most of them are compressed and coded. The intermediate language support allows an easy upgrade of the program (adding new interpretation or improving old ones). The application has many advantages. It is useful in specialized clinics or universities, to establish different types of radiographic diagnosis.