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arxiv: 2605.15241 · v1 · pith:7LBFXLEDnew · submitted 2026-05-14 · 📡 eess.IV · cs.CV· cs.LG

From Full and Partial Intraoral Scans to Crown Proposal: A Classification-Guided Restoration Assistance Pipeline

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keywords intraoral scanscrown restorationdental segmentationpartial scans3D point cloudsDGCNNcrown proposal
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A classification-guided pipeline produces patient-specific crown proposals from partial intraoral scans in 2.5-3.5 minutes.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper develops an end-to-end pipeline that accepts a raw intraoral scan and target tooth number to output an initial crown proposal for refinement. It routes partial-scan segmentation through a DGCNN classifier that identifies one of five anatomical types, then applies coarse-to-fine registration and graph-cut boundary refinement to achieve accurate tooth and gingiva labels. Context-aware retrieval then selects crown candidates by cosine similarity on DGCNN embeddings of neighboring and opposing teeth, followed by spline alignment and Blender fitting to produce the shell. This retrieval-based route is positioned as a practical alternative to end-to-end generative crown methods that tend to smooth occlusal details.

Core claim

The pipeline takes a raw intraoral scan and FDI tooth number as input and outputs an initial crown proposal. By routing segmentation through a classify-then-align strategy for partial scans and using DGCNN-based retrieval over neighboring teeth embeddings, it achieves macro-average DSC 0.9249 across 17 classes on 1,958 partial scans and generates the crown shell in 2.5-3.5 minutes.

What carries the argument

The classify-then-align segmentation strategy that first categorizes the scan into one of five anatomical types with DGCNN, applies coarse-to-fine RANSAC+ICP registration, and refines boundaries with graph-cut, followed by the context-aware retrieval using cosine similarity on DGCNN embeddings of neighboring and opposing teeth.

If this is right

  • Partial scans achieve macro-average DSC 0.9249 with sub-millimeter centroid errors of 0.2666-0.2774 mm for the prepared tooth and neighbors.
  • The pipeline supplies a fast, practical alternative to generative approaches that lose occlusal detail.
  • High segmentation precision and recall support reliable downstream crown fitting in CAD/CAM workflows.
  • The method works on the partial scans preferred for single-unit cases to avoid stitching errors.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The embedding-retrieval approach could extend to other single-tooth restorations such as inlays or onlays.
  • Adding a lightweight generative step after retrieval might further refine occlusal surfaces while retaining speed.
  • Expanding the candidate library or testing on underrepresented anatomies would clarify limits of the similarity-based selection.

Load-bearing premise

Cosine similarity over DGCNN embeddings of neighboring and opposing teeth will surface geometrically suitable crown candidates that match the specific patient anatomy.

What would settle it

A test set of partial scans where retrieved crowns repeatedly fail to match occlusal contacts or proximal surfaces accurately, forcing extensive manual edits, would show the retrieval step does not deliver clinically usable proposals.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.15241 by Akio Tanaka, Amit Regmi, Dikshya Parajuli, Kennta Kashiwazaki, Kundan Siwakoti, Louis Digiorgio, Manabu Kanazawa, Masahiko Inada, Prince Panta, Rabin Kunwar, Romik Gosai, Rujal Acharya, Saugat Kafley, Shuvangi Adhikari, Yuriko Komagamine.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Overview of the proposed crown generation pipeline. The dentist first specifies the target FDI tooth number as user input. (a) Raw intraoral scans are classified and aligned using DGCNN + RANSAC/ICP. (b) A segmentation network isolates individual tooth surfaces. (c) A neighbour-context-aware retrieval module uses the FDI number to query the crown library and selects the most morphologically similar shell. … view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Ground Truth Annotation Schema. Visualization of the semantic labeling strategy based on the FDI notation system. (Top) The Maxillary arch, containing indices 11–18 (upper right) and 21–28 (upper left). (Bottom) The Mandibular arch, containing indices 31–38 (lower left) and 41–48 (lower right). Each FDI label is associated with a unique color used during the semantic segmentation training process. 2) Datas… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Distribution of full-jaw tooth classes highlighting wisdom teeth. Red [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_3.png] view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Preprocessing stage (i): Jaws classification of intraoral scans. registration. As shown in Table II, the model demonstrated exceptional reliability for lateral partial scans, with F1-scores of 0.944 (Left) and 0.957 (Right). High precision in these categories is vital because partial scans lack the global arch context required for standard alignment. TABLE II TEST SET CLASSIFICATION METRICS (8-FEATURE BEST… view at source ↗
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: Population Analysis. (Top) Visualization of all individual tooth centroids after global alignment. (Bottom) The computed “Global Average Centroid Curve” representing the population mean. dataset, we applied the orientation normalization pipeline described in [27]. This process aligns the occlusal plane to the global XY-plane and corrects anterior-posterior ambiguity using parabolic fitting, ensuring all 98… view at source ↗
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: Canonical Reference Templates. (a) The Canonical Full Upper and Lower jaws selected based on the best fit to the average curve. (b, c) The dictionary of Upper and Lower partial templates derived by cropping the Master templates, shown aligned to the global curve. Furthermore, to prevent misalignment errors along the den￾tal arch, we tightened the RANSAC geometric constraints by setting the Edge Length Simi… view at source ↗
Figure 8
Figure 8. Figure 8: Qualitative registration validation on full and partial intraoral scans. The top row shows arbitrarily oriented input scans overlaid with the corresponding reference template, while the bottom row shows the final canonical alignment produced by the proposed Coarse-to-Fine registration pipeline. Full-arch examples (upper and lower) and partial-arch examples (left, right, and anterior) are presented together… view at source ↗
Figure 9
Figure 9. Figure 9: Library Crown Pre-annotation. Color-coded regions define the mesial (green), buccal (red), and occlusal (blue) faces. preparation site, Cprep. At this point on the curve, we calculate two initial direction vectors within the XY plane: • Reference Mesial Vector (vm−ref ): The normalized tangent to the curve, pointing “forward” (distal-to￾mesial) along the arch. • Reference Buccal Vector (vb−ref ): The norma… view at source ↗
Figure 10
Figure 10. Figure 10: Robust target extraction at the preparation site. (a) Mesial alignment: (left) full view showing orange and purple scatter of mesial vertices before and after alignment; (right) zoomed detail of the recovered target vector vm-robust at the prepared tooth. (b) Buccal alignment: similarly showing the recovered buccal target vb-robust. iprep}. 2. A Robust Mesial Target (vm-robust) is found by averag￾ing the … view at source ↗
Figure 11
Figure 11. Figure 11: Visual overview of the Patient-Specific Crown Alignment pipeline. The figure illustrates the process in three stages: (a) Initial Misalignment: The retrieved library crown (yellow) is initially positioned far from the patient scan (Grey). (b) Dental Arc: a cubic spline is fitted to the dental arch tooth centroids. At the preparation site, robust Mesial and Buccal target vectors are extracted. (c) Final Re… view at source ↗
Figure 12
Figure 12. Figure 12: Identification of the top five cusps used for local “tap-down” [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p010_12.png] view at source ↗
Figure 13
Figure 13. Figure 13: Qualitative analysis of the five lowest scoring scans. (Top row) Ground truth annotations. (Bottom row) Model predictions. Per-case metrics are reported below each scan: Jaw DSC denotes the overall macro-average arch DSC; Ctx Dice and Ctx CE denote the macro-average DSC and Centroid Error (mm) computed over the context area, defined as the prepared tooth and its immediate mesial (Adjacent 1) and distal (A… view at source ↗
Figure 14
Figure 14. Figure 14: Qualitative evaluation of the crown-generation workflow on challenging posterior partial scan cases identified previously in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p014_14.png] view at source ↗
Figure 15
Figure 15. Figure 15: Misclassification impact on segmentation for a left-partial input. The same input jaw is aligned with each candidate template (full, central-partial, partial-left, and partial-right), then passed through the same segmentation model. Compatible template alignments (b–d) preserve high DSC, while contralateral partial-right alignment (e) yields catastrophic failure. [4] A. Ender and A. Mehl, “Effect of intra… view at source ↗
read the original abstract

Single-unit crown restoration is among the most common procedures in clinical dentistry, with CAD/CAM workflows now designing crowns directly from intraoral scans. Partial scans are often preferred over full-arch scans for single-unit cases due to fewer stitching errors, yet most segmentation networks trained on full arches fail on partial scans, while end-to-end generative crown methods often produce over-smoothed surfaces that lose occlusal detail. We propose an end-to-end pipeline that takes a raw intraoral scan and target FDI tooth number as input and outputs an initial, patient-specific crown proposal for clinician refinement. The pipeline has three phases: (I) data preparation and pose standardization; (II) segmentation routed by scan type; and (III) crown proposal generation via context-aware retrieval and Blender-based fitting. We address partial-scan segmentation through a classify-then-align strategy: a DGCNN classifier categorizes the scan into one of five anatomical types, then coarse-to-fine RANSAC+ICP registration standardizes the jaw coordinate frame, followed by graph-cut optimization to refine tooth-gingival boundaries. Trained on 1,958 partial scans, the pipeline achieves macro-average DSC 0.9249, Recall 0.8919, and Precision 0.9615 across 17 semantic classes; a fine-tuned full-arch model reaches DSC 0.9347. The prepared tooth and its mesial and distal neighbors achieve DSC 0.9468-0.9569 with sub-millimeter Centroid Errors (0.2666-0.2774 mm). These centroids anchor a retrieval module using DGCNN embeddings and cosine similarity over neighboring and opposing teeth, followed by spline-guided alignment and Blender Python API refinement. The pipeline produces a preliminary crown shell in 2.5-3.5 minutes, offering a practical alternative to end-to-end generative approaches.

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Referee Report

2 major / 2 minor

Summary. The manuscript proposes an end-to-end pipeline that accepts a raw intraoral scan and target FDI tooth number and outputs a preliminary patient-specific crown shell. Phase I standardizes pose; Phase II classifies the scan into one of five anatomical types with DGCNN, applies coarse-to-fine RANSAC+ICP registration, and refines tooth-gingival boundaries via graph-cut; Phase III retrieves library crowns via cosine similarity on DGCNN embeddings of neighboring and opposing teeth, then performs spline-guided alignment and Blender Python API fitting. On 1,958 partial scans the segmentation stage reports macro-average DSC 0.9249, recall 0.8919, precision 0.9615 across 17 classes, with prepared-tooth and neighbor DSC 0.9468-0.9569 and centroid errors 0.2666-0.2774 mm; total runtime is stated as 2.5-3.5 minutes.

Significance. The segmentation results on partial scans are quantitatively grounded and address a documented clinical pain point where full-arch models degrade. The classify-then-align strategy and reported sub-millimeter centroid accuracy constitute a concrete, reproducible contribution. If the retrieval step can be shown to select anatomically suitable crowns, the pipeline would supply a practical, controllable alternative to end-to-end generative crown methods; the absence of any surface-distance, occlusion, or expert-comparison metrics for the final proposals, however, prevents a full assessment of clinical utility.

major comments (2)
  1. [Abstract / crown proposal generation] Abstract and crown-proposal section: no quantitative evaluation (surface-to-surface distance, Hausdorff distance, occlusion contact area, or expert rating versus ground-truth clinical crowns) is supplied for the output of the DGCNN-embedding retrieval, spline alignment, and Blender fitting steps. Because the headline claim of a “clinically usable preliminary crown shell” rests on the premise that cosine similarity over neighboring/opposing embeddings surfaces appropriate library candidates, this omission is load-bearing for the central contribution.
  2. [Abstract] Abstract: the claim that the pipeline offers a “practical alternative to end-to-end generative approaches” is not supported by any baseline comparison or ablation that isolates the contribution of the context-aware retrieval module versus a naïve nearest-neighbor or random selection from the library.
minor comments (2)
  1. The manuscript should report the size and diversity of the crown library used for retrieval and any inclusion/exclusion criteria applied to the 1,958-scan training set.
  2. Train/test split details, cross-validation strategy, and whether the 1,958 partial scans are patient-disjoint should be stated explicitly.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

2 responses · 1 unresolved

We thank the referee for the constructive feedback and for recognizing the quantitative grounding of the segmentation results on partial scans. We address the two major comments below regarding the crown-proposal stage. Where the comments correctly identify gaps in the current evaluation, we commit to revisions that strengthen the manuscript without overstating what has been demonstrated.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract / crown proposal generation] Abstract and crown-proposal section: no quantitative evaluation (surface-to-surface distance, Hausdorff distance, occlusion contact area, or expert rating versus ground-truth clinical crowns) is supplied for the output of the DGCNN-embedding retrieval, spline alignment, and Blender fitting steps. Because the headline claim of a “clinically usable preliminary crown shell” rests on the premise that cosine similarity over neighboring/opposing embeddings surfaces appropriate library candidates, this omission is load-bearing for the central contribution.

    Authors: We agree that the absence of surface-distance and occlusion metrics for the retrieved and fitted crowns limits assessment of the final output. The manuscript currently demonstrates the retrieval and fitting pipeline through the embedding similarity mechanism and qualitative examples, while providing detailed quantitative results only for the upstream segmentation. In the revised version we will add surface-to-surface distance and Hausdorff distance metrics computed against available ground-truth clinical crowns on a subset of cases. Occlusion contact area and formal expert ratings would require a separate clinical validation protocol; we will explicitly note this as a limitation and future direction rather than claim full clinical usability at present. revision: partial

  2. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: the claim that the pipeline offers a “practical alternative to end-to-end generative approaches” is not supported by any baseline comparison or ablation that isolates the contribution of the context-aware retrieval module versus a naïve nearest-neighbor or random selection from the library.

    Authors: We accept that an explicit ablation would better isolate the benefit of context-aware retrieval over simpler baselines. The current text motivates the approach via the use of neighboring and opposing tooth embeddings but does not report a direct comparison. In the revision we will insert a quantitative ablation that compares the proposed cosine-similarity retrieval against both random library selection and nearest-neighbor selection in the same embedding space, using embedding similarity scores and qualitative fit assessment as proxies. This addition will support the claim more rigorously while remaining within the scope of the existing library and embedding model. revision: yes

standing simulated objections not resolved
  • Formal expert clinical ratings of the crown proposals, which would require a new IRB-approved reader study outside the current dataset and experimental design.

Circularity Check

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No circularity: empirical metrics on held-out scans and standard retrieval components do not reduce to inputs by construction

full rationale

The paper's central results are measured performance numbers (macro DSC 0.9249, centroid errors 0.2666-0.2774 mm) obtained by training and evaluating DGCNN and registration modules on 1,958 held-out partial scans. The crown proposal step invokes DGCNN embeddings + cosine similarity for retrieval followed by spline alignment and Blender fitting; these are methodological choices whose clinical suitability is an external assumption, not a quantity defined by the paper's own equations or prior self-citations. No self-definitional loops, fitted-input-as-prediction, or load-bearing self-citations appear in the derivation chain. The pipeline is therefore self-contained against external benchmarks.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

1 free parameters · 2 axioms · 0 invented entities

The central claim rests on trained DGCNN models and an implicit database of tooth geometries; no new physical entities are postulated. The main unstated premises are that the five anatomical types are sufficient to route all clinical partial scans and that embedding similarity correlates with crown-fit suitability.

free parameters (1)
  • Number of anatomical scan types
    Fixed at five to enable classify-then-align routing; chosen by the authors rather than derived.
axioms (2)
  • domain assumption DGCNN produces embeddings that capture clinically relevant tooth geometry for retrieval
    Invoked without further justification in the crown proposal generation phase.
  • domain assumption RANSAC+ICP registration followed by graph-cut yields accurate tooth-gingival boundaries on partial scans
    Core step in phase II pose standardization and boundary refinement.

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