Title :
Anatomically-based 3D face and oral cavity model for creating virtual medical patients
Author :
Moschos, G. ; Nikolaidis, N. ; Pitas, I.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Informatics, Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki
Abstract :
This paper presents a new hierarchical, modular and scalable model of a human face and oral cavity based on anatomical data taken from the Visible Human Project (National Institute of Health). The described model can further be adapted to any particular face and oral cavity of a human head by means of a finite elements method (FEM). The final aim will be to construct functional virtual medical patients
Keywords :
dentistry; face recognition; feature extraction; finite element analysis; medical computing; physiological models; rendering (computer graphics); virtual reality; FEM; Greece National Institute of Health; Visible Human Project; adaptable model; anatomical data; anatomically-based 3D face and oral cavity model; finite elements method; hierarchical modular scalable model; human face; human head; oral cavity; virtual medical patients; Biomedical imaging; Cadaver; Dentistry; Face; Facial animation; Humans; Magnetic heads; Manuals; Pathology; Speech;
Conference_Titel :
Multimedia and Expo, 2004. ICME '04. 2004 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Taipei
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8603-5
DOI :
10.1109/ICME.2004.1394338
