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ARXIV:2603.28297 · MEDICAL AI · SUBMITTED 31 MAR · 20:18 UTC · FRESHNESS STALE
ARXIV:2603.28297MEDICAL AISUBMITTED 31 MAR · 20:18 UTCFRESHNESS STALEKun Tang · Xinquan Yang · Mianjie Zheng · Xuefen Liu · Xuguang Li · Xiaoqi Guo · +3 at arXiv
Benchmarking a powerful vision encoder for dental image analysis to reduce annotation costs and improve diagnostic accuracy.
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Benchmarking a powerful vision encoder for dental image analysis to reduce annotation costs and improve diagnostic accuracy. DINOv3, a state-of-the-art, self-supervised vision foundation model pre-trained on 1.7 billion images, offers a promising pathway to…
The scarcity and high cost of expert annotations in dental imaging present a significant challenge for the development of AI in dentistry. DINOv3, a state-of-the-art, self-supervised vision foundation model pre-trained on 1.7 billion images,…
ScienceToStartup currently rates this 7.0/10 on the public viability pass. Our experiments show that DINOv3 can serve as a strong unified encoder for dental image analysis across both panoramic radiographs and intraoral photographs, remaining…
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10.48550/arXiv.2603.28297Benchmarking a powerful vision encoder for dental image analysis to reduce annotation costs and improve diagnostic accuracy.
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The scarcity and high cost of expert annotations in dental imaging present a significant challenge for the development of AI in dentistry. DINOv3, a state-of-the-art, self-supervised vision foundation model pre-trained on 1.7 billion images, offers a promising pathway to mitigate this issue. However, its reliability when transferred to the dental domain, with its unique imaging characteristics and clinical subtleties, remains unclear. To address this, we introduce DinoDental, a unified benchmark designed to systematically evaluate whether DINOv3 can serve as a reliable, off-the-shelf encoder for comprehensive dental image analysis without requiring domain-specific pre-training. Constructed from multiple public datasets, DinoDental covers a wide range of tasks, including classification, detection, and instance segmentation on both panoramic radiographs and intraoral photographs. We further analyze the model's transfer performance by scaling its size and input resolution, and by comparing different adaptation strategies, including frozen features, full fine-tuning, and the parameter-efficient Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) method. Our experiments show that DINOv3 can serve as a strong unified encoder for dental image analysis across both panoramic radiographs and intraoral photographs, remaining competitive across tasks while showing particularly clear advantages for intraoral image understanding and boundary-sensitive dense prediction. Collectively, DinoDental provides a systematic framework for comprehensively evaluating DINOv3 in dental analysis, establishing a foundational benchmark to guide efficient and effective model selection and adaptation for the dental AI community.
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Benchmarking a powerful vision encoder for dental image analysis to reduce annotation costs and improve diagnostic accuracy. DINOv3, a state-of-the-art, self-supervised vision foundation model pre-trained on 1.7 billion images, offers a promising pathway to mitigate this issue.
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The scarcity and high cost of expert annotations in dental imaging present a significant challenge for the development of AI in dentistry. DINOv3, a state-of-the-art, self-supervised vision foundation model pre-trained on 1.7 billion images, offers a promising pathway to mitigat...
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ScienceToStartup currently rates this 7.0/10 on the public viability pass. Our experiments show that DINOv3 can serve as a strong unified encoder for dental image analysis across both panoramic radiographs and intraoral photographs, remaining competitive across tasks while showi...
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Medical AI moved forward this cycle; last verified April 2026. Public score 7.0/10. Production flags indicate code availability.
Our experiments show that DINOv3 can serve as a strong unified encoder for dental image analysis across both panoramic radiographs and intraoral photographs
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remaining competitive across tasks while showing particularly clear advantages for intraoral image understanding and boundary-sensitive dense prediction.
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Constructed from multiple public datasets, DinoDental covers a wide range of tasks, including classification, detection, and instance segmentation on both panoramic radiographs and intraoral photographs.
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However, its reliability when transferred to the dental domain, with its unique imaging characteristics and clinical subtleties, remains unclear.
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DINOv3, a state-of-the-art, self-supervised vision foundation model pre-trained on 1.7 billion images
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To mitigate this degradation, it introduces Gram anchoring to constrain second-order statistics of dense tokens and explicitly preserve high-quality dense representations for boundary-sensitive tasks
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The scarcity and high cost of expert annotations in dental imaging present a significant challenge for the development of AI in dentistry.
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We further analyze the model's transfer performance by scaling its size and input resolution, and by comparing different adaptation strategies, including frozen features, full fine-tuning, and the parameter-efficient Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) method.
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