3D reconstruction of highly fragmented bone fractures

Andrew Willis; Donald Anderson; Thad Thomas; Thomas Brown; J. Lawrence Marsh

doi:10.1117/12.708683

5 March 2007 3D reconstruction of highly fragmented bone fractures

Andrew Willis, Donald Anderson, Thad Thomas, Thomas Brown, J. Lawrence Marsh

Proceedings Volume 6512, Medical Imaging 2007: Image Processing; 65121P (2007) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.708683
Event: Medical Imaging, 2007, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

A system for the semi-automatic reconstruction of highly fragmented bone fractures, developed to aid in treatment planning, is presented. The system aligns bone fragment surfaces derived from segmentation of volumetric CT scan data. Each fragment surface is partitioned into intact- and fracture-surfaces, corresponding more or less to cortical and cancellous bone, respectively. A user then interactively selects fracture-surface patches in pairs that coarsely correspond. A final optimization step is performed automatically to solve the N-body rigid alignment problem. The work represents the first example of a 3D bone fracture reconstruction system and addresses two new problems unique to the reconstruction of fractured bones: (1) non-stationary noise inherent in surfaces generated from a difficult segmentation problem and (2) the possibility that a single fracture surface on a fragment may correspond to many other fragments.

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Andrew Willis, Donald Anderson, Thad Thomas, Thomas Brown, and J. Lawrence Marsh "3D reconstruction of highly fragmented bone fractures", Proc. SPIE 6512, Medical Imaging 2007: Image Processing, 65121P (5 March 2007); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.708683

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