Caries DETR: Tooth Structure-aware Prior and Lesion-aware Dynamic Loss Refinement for DETR Based Caries Detection

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2604.23718v1
• Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2026 14:02:41 GMT
• Title: Caries DETR: Tooth Structure-aware Prior and Lesion-aware Dynamic Loss Refinement for DETR Based Caries Detection
• Abstract summary: We propose Caries-DETR, a specialized Transformer framework for caries detection in intraoral images.<n>A Tooth Structure-aware Query Initialization (TSQI) is designed, leveraging large-scale intraoral photograph pre-training.<n>We also design a Lesion-aware Dynamic Loss Refinement (LDLR) to implement quality-driven hard mining.
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• Abstract: As dental caries appear as subtle, low-contrast lesions in intraoral imaging, existing deep learning models face significant challenges in the early detection of caries. While recent Transformer-based detectors have shown promising results in natural images, they often fail to capture the domain-specific anatomical priors crucial for dental caries detection. In this paper, we propose Caries-DETR, a specialized Transformer framework for caries detection in intraoral images. A Tooth Structure-aware Query Initialization (TSQI) is designed, leveraging large-scale intraoral photograph pre-training and a structure perception branch (SPB) to integrate high-frequency structural priors, guiding the model to focus on anatomically significant lesion areas. Furthermore, we design a Lesion-aware Dynamic Loss Refinement (LDLR) to implement quality-driven hard mining through adaptive loss reweighting based on lesion size, anatomical relevance, and prediction quality, optimizing detection for subtle lesions. Extensive experiments on two public datasets (i.e., AlphaDent and DentalAI) demonstrate that Caries-DETR achieves a state-of-the-art performance compared to existing methods and exhibits good generalization and robustness. Code and data at https://github.com/XuefenLiu-SZU/Caries-DETR}{https://github.com/XuefenLiu-SZU/Caries-DETR.

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