Automatic Measurement of Morphological Parameters of Hip Joint from CT Images

Author

Song, Weiwei ; Hua, Shungang ; Ou, Zongying ; Zhao, Qin ; An, Hu

Author_Institution

Sch. of Mech. Eng., Univ. of Jinan, Jinan

fYear

2008

Firstpage

2382

Lastpage

2385

Abstract

A computer-aided automatic measurement method based on reverse engineering is proposed for determination of morphological parameters of hip joint from living body CT images. Firstly, the geometrical model of hip joint is built according to the anatomical structure. Secondly, 3D models of hip joint is reconstructed from the CT images and scattered to point cloud data. Thirdly, the point cloud is approximated with 3D fitting algorithm based on reverse engineering techniques, and in the end, some interesting parameters are measured automatically. 50 sets of in vivo CT data of hip joint of normal volunteers are tested for indicating the validity of the presented method.

Keywords

biomedical measurement; computerised tomography; curve fitting; diagnostic radiography; image reconstruction; medical image processing; orthopaedics; physiological models; reverse engineering; 3D fitting algorithm; 3D models; anatomical structure; computer-aided automatic measurement method; geometrical model; hip joint; image reconstruction; living body CT images; morphological parameters; point cloud data; reverse engineering techniques; Anatomical structure; Clouds; Computed tomography; Hip; Image reconstruction; In vivo; Joints; Reverse engineering; Scattering; Solid modeling;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering, 2008. ICBBE 2008. The 2nd International Conference on

Conference_Location

Shanghai

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1747-6

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1748-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICBBE.2008.928

Filename

4535808