The 3D Visualization of Dental Panoramic X-Ray Images

Author

Lu, Jianrong ; Liu, Youjun ; Tuo, Niya

Author_Institution

Coll. of Life Sci. & Bio-Eng., Beijing Univ. of Technol., Beijing, China

fYear

2009

fDate

19-20 Dec. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

Dental panoramic radiography, which plays an important part in the diagnosis of oral diseases especially the plastic, has been widely used in hospitals as a branch of radiography. The dental panoramic X-ray images show a two-dimensional view of whole teeth from left second molar to right second molar only, but they do not contain the 3D information of patients´ oral and maxillofacial anatomical structure. A method was proposed in this paper to bend the dental panoramic X-ray images according to the curve which was fitted by the patient-specific dental arch for the 3D visualization of dental panoramic X-ray images.

Keywords

data visualisation; diagnostic radiography; medical image processing; patient diagnosis; 3D visualization; dental panoramic X-ray images; dental panoramic radiography; maxillofacial anatomical structure; oral disease diagnosis; patient oral 3D information; Computed tomography; Curve fitting; Dentistry; Diagnostic radiography; Educational institutions; Filters; Image storage; Rendering (computer graphics); Visualization; X-ray imaging;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Engineering and Computer Science, 2009. ICIECS 2009. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Wuhan

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4994-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICIECS.2009.5363543

Filename

5363543