Title :
3D detection and measurement of facial swellings
Author :
Paviotti, Anna ; Brusco, Nicola ; Cortelazzo, Guido M.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Inf. Eng., Univ. of Padova, Padua, Italy
Abstract :
This work presents a procedure for the 3D detection and measurement of facial swellings, an issue of paramount importance in oral and maxillofacial surgery. The considered problems are the automatic acquisition of face masks of adequate precision, the registration of the 3D masks of the same patient taken at different times during the edema evolution, and the detection and estimate of the edema volumes.
Keywords :
biological fluid dynamics; biomedical measurement; biomedical optical imaging; biorheology; computer graphic equipment; image registration; image texture; medical image processing; skin; surgery; 3D face mask registration; 3D facial swelling detection; 3D facial swelling measurement; adequate face mask precision; automatic face mask acquisition; edema evolution; edema volume detection; edema volume estimation; facial swelling detection procedure; facial swelling measurement procedure; maxillofacial surgery; oral surgery; patient face mask; three-dimensional facial swelling detection; three-dimensional facial swelling measurement; Abstracts; Computational modeling; Frequency modulation;
Conference_Titel :
Signal Processing Conference, 2006 14th European
Conference_Location :
Florence
