US 11,995,839 B2
Automated detection, generation and/or correction of dental features in digital models
Assaf Weiss, Yavne (IL); Maxim Volgin, Moscow (RU); Pavel Agniashvili, Moscow (RU); Chad Clayton Brown, Cary, NC (US); Alexander Raskhodchikov, Moscow (RU); Avi Kopelman, Palo Alto, CA (US); Michael Sabina, Campbell, CA (US); Moti Ben-Dov, Tel Mond (IL); Shai Farkash, Hod Hasharon (IL); Igor Makiewsky, Ramat Gan (IL); Maayan Moshe, Ramat Hasharon (IL); and Ofer Saphier, Rechovot (IL)
Assigned to Align Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed by Align Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed on Sep. 3, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/011,930.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/895,905, filed on Sep. 4, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0059796 A1, Mar. 4, 2021
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G06T 7/12 (2017.01); A61C 13/00 (2006.01); A61C 13/34 (2006.01); G06N 3/047 (2023.01); G06N 3/08 (2023.01); G06T 7/00 (2017.01); G16H 30/40 (2018.01)
CPC G06T 7/12 (2017.01) [A61C 13/0004 (2013.01); A61C 13/0019 (2013.01); A61C 13/34 (2013.01); G06N 3/047 (2023.01); G06N 3/08 (2013.01); G06T 7/0012 (2013.01); G16H 30/40 (2018.01); G06T 2207/20081 (2013.01); G06T 2207/20084 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30036 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
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1. A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising instructions that, when executed by a processing device, cause the processing device to perform operations comprising:
generating a three-dimensional model of a dental site from scan data of the dental site, the three-dimensional model comprising a representation of a preparation tooth;
receiving or generating an image of the preparation tooth;
processing data from the image using a trained machine learning model that has been trained to identify margin lines of preparation teeth, wherein the trained machine learning model outputs a probability map comprising, for each pixel in the image, a probability that the pixel depicts a margin line;
determining, for each point of a plurality of points on the three-dimensional model that maps to a pixel in the image of the preparation tooth, a probability that the point depicts the margin line using the probability map;
computing the margin line by applying a cost function to the plurality of points on the three-dimensional model based on probabilities associated with the plurality of points; and
updating the three-dimensional model of the dental site by marking the margin line on the representation of the preparation tooth.