Non-rigid contour-to-pixel registration of photographic and quantitative light-induced fluorescence imaging of decalcified teeth

Benjamin Berkels; Thomas Deserno; Eva E. Ehrlich; Ulrike B. Fritz; Ekaterina Sirazitdinova; Rosalia Tatano

doi:10.1117/12.2216250

21 March 2016 Non-rigid contour-to-pixel registration of photographic and quantitative light-induced fluorescence imaging of decalcified teeth

Benjamin Berkels, Thomas Deserno, Eva E. Ehrlich, Ulrike B. Fritz, Ekaterina Sirazitdinova, Rosalia Tatano

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Proceedings Volume 9784, Medical Imaging 2016: Image Processing; 97840Z (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2216250
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2016, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Quantitative light-induced fluorescence (QLF) is widely used to assess the damage of a tooth due to decalcification. In digital photographs, decalcification appears as white spot lesions, i.e. white spots on the tooth surface. We propose a novel multimodal registration approach for the matching of digital photographs and QLF images of decalcified teeth. The registration is based on the idea of contour-to-pixel matching. Here, the curve, which represents the shape of the tooth, is extracted from the QLF image using a contour segmentation by binarization and morphological processing. This curve is aligned to the photo with a non-rigid variational registration approach. Thus, the registration problem is formulated as minimization problem with an objective function that consists of a data term and a regularizer for the deformation. To construct the data term, the photo is pointwise classified into tooth and non-tooth regions. Then, the signed distance function of the tooth region allows to measure the mismatch between curve and photo. As regularizer a higher order, linear elastic prior is used. The resulting minimization problem is solved numerically using bilinear Finite Elements for the spatial discretization and the Gauss-Newton algorithm. The evaluation is based on 150 image pairs, where an average of 5 teeth have been captured from 32 subjects. All registrations have been confirmed correctly by a dental expert. The contour-to-pixel methods can directly be used in 3D for surface-to-voxel tasks.

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Benjamin Berkels, Thomas Deserno, Eva E. Ehrlich, Ulrike B. Fritz, Ekaterina Sirazitdinova, and Rosalia Tatano "Non-rigid contour-to-pixel registration of photographic and quantitative light-induced fluorescence imaging of decalcified teeth", Proc. SPIE 9784, Medical Imaging 2016: Image Processing, 97840Z (21 March 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2216250

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