Abstract (EN):
The creation of 3D complete models of the woman breast that aggregate radiological and surface information is a crucial step for the development of surgery planning tools in the context of breast cancer. This requires the registration of interior and surface data of the breast, which has to recover large breast deformations caused by the different poses of the patient during data acquisition and has to deal with the lack of landmarks between both modalities, apart from the nipple. In this paper, the registration of Magnetic Resonance Imaging exams and 3D surface data reconstructed from Kinect (TM) acquisitions is explored using a biomechanical modelling of breast pose transformations combined with a free form deformation to finely match the data. The results are promising, with an average euclidean distance between the matched data of 0.81 +/- 0.09 mm being achieved.
Language:
English
Type (Professor's evaluation):
Scientific
No. of pages:
4