Skuller: A volumetric shape registration algorithm for modeling skull deformities

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2015-07-01

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Sahillioğlu, Yusuf

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We present an algorithm for volumetric registration of 3D solid shapes. In comparison to previous work on image based registration, our technique achieves higher efficiency by leveraging a template tetrahedral mesh. In contrast to point- and surface-based registration techniques, our method better captures volumetric nature of the data, such as bone thickness. We apply our algorithm to study pathological skull deformities caused by a particular condition, i.e., craniosynostosis. The input to our system is a pair of volumetric 3D shapes: a tetrahedral mesh and a voxelized object represented by a set of voxel cells segmented from computed tomography (CT) scans. Our general framework first performs a global registration and then launches a novel elastic registration process that uses as much volumetric information as possible while deforming the generic template tetrahedral mesh of a healthy human skull towards the underlying geometry of the voxel cells. Both data are high-resolution and differ by large non-rigid deformations. Our fully-automatic solution is fast and accurate, as compared with the state of the arts from the reconstruction and medical image registration fields. We use the resulting registration to match the ground-truth surfaces extracted from the medical data as well as to quantify the severity of the anatomical deformity.

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Volumetric Shape Registration, Deformation, High-Resolution Model

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/36863

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MEDICAL IMAGE ANALYSIS

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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.media.2015.03.005

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Department of Computer Engineering, Article

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Y. Sahillioğlu, “Skuller: A volumetric shape registration algorithm for modeling skull deformities,” MEDICAL IMAGE ANALYSIS, pp. 15–27, 2015, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/36863.