August 16, 2024

On the seventh floor of the University of Maryland School of Dentistry (UMSOD), Ahmed Sultan, BDS, PhD, and Jeffery B. Price, DDS, MS, are working to expand the boundaries of artificial intelligence-assisted diagnostics to develop new ways of diagnosing diseases and creating dental and dental predictive models with greater transparency, precision, and, ultimately, better patient outcomes.

It is an ambitious and potentially transformative project — part of UMSOD’s new Division of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Research. “AI algorithms can be developed so that the program will explain how it makes its decisions,” Price said. “And by creating interpretable or explainable AI models, we will be able to allow clinicians to see what and how predictions are made by AI, and this will build trust.” 

Read more about the new Division of Artificial Intelligence Research.