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Construction and analysis of a head CT-scan database for craniofacial reconstruction

Françoise Tilotta () ¹, Frédéric Richard () ², Joan Alexis Glaunès ², Maxime Berar ², Servane Gey ², Stéphane Verdeille ³, Yves Rozenholc (, ) ², Jean-François F. Gaudy ¹

Forensic Science International 191, 1-3 (2009) 112.e1-112.e12

• 1:  Laboratory of Functional Anatomy
• 
  Université Paris V - Paris Descartes 1 rue Marcel Arnoux 92120 Montrouge France
• 2:  Mathématiques appliquées Paris 5 (MAP5)
• http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/map5/
  CNRS : UMR8145 – Université Paris V - Paris Descartes UFR de Maths et informatique 45 rue des Saints Pères 75270 PARIS CEDEX 06 France
• 3:  Center for Medical Imaging
• 
  Hopital Saint Cloud Val D'Or Val D'Or 92210 Saint Cloud France

Bibliographic reference

• Type of document: Articles in peer-reviewed journal
• Subject: Computer Science/Image Processing
• Title: Construction and analysis of a head CT-scan database for craniofacial reconstruction
• Abstract: This paper is devoted to the construction of a complete database which is intended to improve the implementation and the evaluation of computer-based facial reconstruction. This growing database is currently composed of $85$ head CT-scans of healthy european subjects aged 20 to 65 years old. It also includes the triangulated surfaces of the face and the skull of each subject. These surfaces are extracted from CT-scans using an original combination of image-processing techniques which are presented in the paper. Besides, a set of $39$ referenced anatomical skull landmarks were located manually on each scan. Using the geometrical information provided by triangulated surfaces, we compute facial soft-tissue depths at each known landmark positions. We report the average thickness values at each landmark and compare our measures to those of the traditional charts of Rhine et al. and of several recent in vivo studies (Manheim et al., De Greef et al. and Helmer et al.).
• Fulltext language: English
• Production date: 2008-05-13
• DOI: 10.1016/j.forsciint.2009.06.017
• Journal:

  Forensic Science International (Forensic Sci Int)
  Publisher	Elsevier
  ISSN	0379-0738

• Audience: international
• Publication date: 2009
• Volume: 191
• Issue: 1-3
• Page, identifiant, ...: 112.e1-112.e12
• Keyword(s): database – head CT-scan – skull segmentation – facial reconstruction – soft-tissue depths
• Internal note: MAP5 2008-11

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• Submitted on: Tuesday, 13 May 2008 15:07:57
• Updated on: Friday, 1 October 2010 13:22:29