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In artificial intelligence classification studies, a single source of morphological information may not be sufficient.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Objectives<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>A hybrid and explainable machine learning approach combining different levels of morphological information about the mandible was developed in this study.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Analyses were performed on 52 (31 female, 21 male) rat mandibles raised under the same conditions. A total of 24 osteometric parameters were calculated from two\u2010dimensional photographs of the mandible. Furthermore, features were extracted from the mandibular photographs using handcrafted and pretrained deep learning. Machine learning models were first built separately using the features. 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