Efficacy of Different Image Processing Filters for the Detection of Proximal Recurrent Caries in Digital Bitewing Radiographs

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Assistant Professor of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology.Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology, Faculty of Dentistry, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran.

2 Postgraduate Student of Oral and Maxillofacial. Radiology. Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology, Faculty of Dentistry, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran.

3 Postgraduate Student of Oral and Maxillofacial. Radiology,Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology, Faculty of Dentistry, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran.


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