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In this direction, approaches have been improved, from the past to the present, to extract meaningful features from dental images and classify them accurately. Especially, high asymmetry in morphological balance, play a critical role in distinguishing pathological patterns from normal anatomy. In this study, we propose a scenario for the classification of periapical lesions, supported by a combination of improved image processing techniques and regularization strategies integrated into the VGG16 transfer learning architecture, as the experience and time criteria required for manual interpretation of lesion detection confirm the need for a computer-aided system. In this study, which was conducted on the UFPE public dataset, an improvement in the performance of the VGG16 transfer learning architecture was achieved, with 18 different regularization methods proposed. 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