Caries DETR: Tooth Structure-aware Prior and Lesion-aware Dynamic Loss Refinement for DETR Based Caries Detection

ArXi:2604.23718v1 Announce Type: new As dental caries appear as subtle, low-contrast lesions in intraoral imaging, existing deep learning models face significant challenges in the early detection of caries. While recent Transformer-based detectors have shown promising results in natural images, they often fail to capture the domain-specific anatomical priors crucial for dental caries detection. In this paper, we propose Caries-DETR, a specialized Transformer framework for caries detection in intraoral images.