SURFACE RECONSTRUCTION FOR GENERATING DIGITAL MODELS OF PROSTHESIS

Luiz C. M. de Aquino, Diego A. T. Q. Leite, Gilson A. Giraldi, Jaime S. Cardoso, Paulo Sergio S. Rodrigues, Luiz A. P. Neves

2011

Abstract

The restoration and recovery of a defective skull can be performed through operative techniques to implant a customized prosthesis. Recently, image processing and surface reconstruction methods have been used for digital prosthesis design. In this paper we present a framework for prosthesis modeling. Firstly, we take the computed tomography (CT) of the skull and perform bone segmentation by thresholding. The obtained binary volume is processed by morphological operators, frame-by-frame, to get the inner and outer boundaries of the bone. These curves are used to initialize a 2D deformable model that generates the prosthesis boundary in each CT frame. In this way, we can fill the prosthesis volume which is the input for a marching cubes technique that computes the digital model of the target geometry. In the experimental results we demonstrate the potential of our technique and compare it with a related one.

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C. M. de Aquino L., A. T. Q. Leite D., A. Giraldi G., S. Cardoso J., Sergio S. Rodrigues P. and A. P. Neves L. (2011). SURFACE RECONSTRUCTION FOR GENERATING DIGITAL MODELS OF PROSTHESIS . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2011) ISBN 978-989-8425-47-8, pages 137-142. DOI: 10.5220/0003356601370142


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@conference{visapp11,
author={Luiz C. M. de Aquino and Diego A. T. Q. Leite and Gilson A. Giraldi and Jaime S. Cardoso and Paulo Sergio S. Rodrigues and Luiz A. P. Neves},
title={SURFACE RECONSTRUCTION FOR GENERATING DIGITAL MODELS OF PROSTHESIS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2011)},
year={2011},
pages={137-142},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003356601370142},
isbn={978-989-8425-47-8},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2011)
TI - SURFACE RECONSTRUCTION FOR GENERATING DIGITAL MODELS OF PROSTHESIS
SN - 978-989-8425-47-8
AU - C. M. de Aquino L.
AU - A. T. Q. Leite D.
AU - A. Giraldi G.
AU - S. Cardoso J.
AU - Sergio S. Rodrigues P.
AU - A. P. Neves L.
PY - 2011
SP - 137
EP - 142
DO - 10.5220/0003356601370142