Yuyin Long

Intraoral dental caries detection based on mask-regularized vision transformer

Accurate detection of dental caries supports early intervention; however, many deep-learning approaches require dense pixel-level annotations for every image, which are costly to obtain and limit scalability. Models trained with limited supervision may also rely on spurious visua...

Functional effects of microbial metabolites in dental caries

Dental caries is a multifactorial disease primarily driven by the metabolic activity of microorganisms within oral biofilms. The carious process begins when fermentable carbohydrates are metabolized by microbes, leading to the production of organic acids that lower the local pH a...