Analysis of craniometric variables throughout paraconsistent logic neural network / Modelo de análise de variáveis craniométricas através das redes neurais artificiais paraconsistentes
AUTOR(ES)
Mauricio Conceição Mario
DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO
2006
RESUMO
This work shows the development of an unequal craniometric analysis model, which uses Paraconsistent Neural Network, based upon Paraconsistent Logic with two values. Such logical approach has the capability to handle concepts as uncertainness, inconsistency and paracompleteness. It has been used on diverse applications which present such features, constituting a new mathematical tool in Artificial Intelligence. The presented methodology had as main goal to booster diagnosis in Orthodontics. The developed model processes craniometric measures of a specific person, and compares to the expected means drawn from a Brazilian sample, comprised of children and adolescent individuals, ranging from 6 to 18 year-old, of both genders. The current cephalometric analysis, developed under the approach of Paraconsistent Logic, quantifies skeletal and dental discrepancies. The use of Paraconsistent Neural Network allows aggregating a factor of vagueness, respecting the limits of traditional orthodontic classification. At the same time, it contextualizes variables of different craniofacial regions. The results of the analysis are expressed through degrees of skeletal discrepancies, in the anteroposterior and vertical dimensions, and degrees of dental discrepancies, for the upper and lower incisors. Cephalometric va lues of a sample of 120 patients were processed by the paraconsistent model and analyzed by three specialists in Orthodontics. According to Kappa index, the agreement between the model and the specialists ranged from moderate to almost perfect, according to the variables considered. The inter-observer opinions were substantially similar to the mathematical model, which reflects the potential of the model as a specialist system. The use of Artificial Intelligence methods throughout Paraconsistent Logics, allowed significant improvement in cephalometric assessment. The presented model can be applied in different samples or populations, with adaptation of the degrees of normality as initial references.
ASSUNTO(S)
variáveis craniométricas análise cefalométrica diagnóstico ortodôntico inteligência artificial paraconsistent logic craniometrics variables cephalometric analysis orthodontic diagnosis lógica paraconsistente artificial intelligence redes neurais artificiais paraconsistentes paraconsistent neural networks
