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4 CONCLUSIONS
This work shows that it is possible to recover the 3D
shape of the proximal femur from relatively small
number of X-ray projections. This was possible
thanks to x-ray stereo model, contour points
matching and combination of a round-trip scan to
exploit the different possibilities of estimating the
3D contours. As a prospect to this work, we would
like to reduce furthermore the number of the X-ray
images and improve the accuracy by exploring new
matching techniques as the Chamfer matching. The
incorporation of this whole system will help
providing enhanced 3D images for orthopedic
procedures and intra-operative assistance.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This work is part of the FRACTOS project
supported by the Region Centre (France). We
gratefully acknowledge the Region Centre for its
support.
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