Mina Mahdian, DDS, MDSc, associate professor in the Stony Brook School of Dental Medicine Department of Prosthodontics and Digital Technology, and Prateek Prasanna, assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Informatics, have received a $300,000 grant from the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to explore whether routine dental imaging can be used to detect early signs of heart disease.
The two-year research project is titled, “Automated Characterization of Arterial Calcification in Dental Cone Beam Computed Tomography as Predictors of Cardiovascular Disease.” It aims to develop an AI-driven tool that can automatically identify and characterize arterial calcifications, mineral deposits that can signal cardiovascular risk, visible in cone beam CT (CBCT) scans commonly used in dental practices.
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