Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Pei, Yuru
• Shi, Fuhao
• Chen, Hua
• Wei, Jia
• Zha, Hongbin
• Jiang, Ruoping
• Xu, Tianmin

Titel

Personalized Tooth Shape Estimation From Radiograph and Cast

Ist Teil von

• IEEE transactions on biomedical engineering, 2012-09, Vol.59 (9), p.2400-2411

Ort / Verlag

New York, NY: IEEE

Erscheinungsjahr

2012

Quelle

IEEE Xplore

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Three-dimensional geometric information of teeth is usually needed in pre- and postoperative diagnoses of orthodontic dentistry. The computerized tomography can provide comprehensive 3-D teeth geometries. However, there is still a discussion on computed tomography (CT) as a routine in orthodontic dentistry due to radiation dose. Moreover, the CT is useless when a dentist needs to extract 3-D structures from old archive files with only radiographs and casts, where patient's teeth changed ever since. In this paper, we propose a reconstruction framework for patient-specific teeth based on an integration of 2-D radiographs and digitized casts. The reconstruction is under a template-fitting framework. The shape and orientation of teeth templates are tuned in accordance with patient's radiographs. Specially, the tooth root morphology is controlled by 2-D contours in radiographs. With ray tracing and a contour plane assumption, 2-D root contours in radiographs are projected back to 3-D space, and guide tooth root deformations. Moreover, the template's crown is deformed nonrigidly to fit digitized casts that bear patient's crown details. The system allows 3-D tooth reconstruction with patient-specific geometric details from just casts and 2-D radiographs.