The analysis of shape is a key part of anatomical research and in the large majority of cases landmarks provide a standard starting point. However, while the technology of image capture has developed rapidly and in particular three-dimensional imaging is widely available, the definitions of anatomical landmarks remain rooted in their two-dimensional origins. In the important case of the human f...

In this dissertation a novel method for 3D landmark detection and pose estimation, suitable for both frontal and side 3D facial scans, is presented. It exploits 3D and 2D information by using local shape descriptors to extract candidate interest points that are subsequently identified and labeled as anatomical landmarks. Additionally, a novel generalized framework for combining facial feature d...

Cortical development is an active field of study. The gerbil provides an excellent model for research because at the moment of birth its brain is rather immature, anatomically and functionally. Furthermore, the gerbil auditory cortex is particularly amenable to investigation in that the gerbil’s onset of hearing occurs approximately after 14 days of postnatal life. Despite these advantages of t...

Applying 3D di erential operators to extract point landmarks from medical images generally su ers from false detections. A considerable number of these false detections is caused by neighboring structures that are included in the region-of-interest (ROI) speci ed by the observer. The main contributions of this paper are two di erent approaches to reducing false detections resulting from neighbo...

INTRODUCTION Perioperative navigation is a recent addition to orthognathic surgery. This study aimed to evaluate the accuracy of anatomical landmarks-based registration. MATERIALS AND METHODS Eighty-five holes (1.2 mm diameter) were drilled in the surface of a plastic skull model, which was then scanned using a SkyView cone beam computed tomography scanner. DICOM files were imported into Brai...

In this Technical Report a novel method for 3D landmark detection and pose estimation suitable for both frontal and side 3D facial scans is presented. It utilizes 3D information by using 3D local shape descriptors to extract candidate interest points that are subsequently identified and labeled as anatomical landmarks. The shape descriptors include the shape index, a continuous map of principal...

This chapter presents a computer-assisted method for facial reconstruction. This method provides an estimation of the facial outlook associated with unidentified skeletal remains. Current computer-assisted methods using a statistical framework rely on a common set of points extracted form the bone and softtissue surfaces. Facial reconstruction then attempts to predict the position of the soft-t...

An automatic pigmented skin lesions tracking system, which is important for early skin cancer detection, is proposed in this work. The input to the system is a pair of skin back images of the same subject captured at different times. The output is the correspondence (matching) between the detected lesions and the identification of newly appearing and disappearing ones. First, a set of anatomica...

Purpose. This study was carried out on an Iranian population aiming to investigate mental foramen position relative to inferior border of mandible and skeletal midline and its gender and age differences on CBCT projections. Materials and Methods. A number of 180 CBCT images of patients were analyzed in different planes (tangential, cross-sectional, and axial). The distances from the superior bo...