title: Computer-assisted three-dimensional surgical planning and simulation: 3D color facial model generation.
abstract: A scheme for texture mapping a 3D individualized color photo-realistic facial model from real color portraits and CT data is described. First, 3D CT images including both soft and hard tissues should be reconstructed from sequential CT slices, using a surface rendering technique. Facial features are extracted from 3D soft tissue. A generic mesh is individualized by correspondence matching and interpolation from those feature vertices. Three digitized color portraits with the "third" dimension from reconstructed soft tissue are blended and texture-mapped onto the 3D head model (mesh). A color simulated human head generated from frontal, right and left real color portraits can be viewed from an arbitrary angle in an inexpensive and user-friendly conventional personal computer. This scheme is the basic procedure in 3D computer-assisted simulation surgery.
authors.affiliation: Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Prince Philip Dental Hospital, University of Hong Kong, PR China. jxia@cs.cityu.edu.hk
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Xia
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Samman
authors.forename: R W
authors.initials: RW
authors.lastname: Yeung
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Tideman
mesh_terms: D003116:Color; D003196:Computer Graphics; D003198:Computer Simulation; D003952:Diagnostic Imaging; D005145:Face / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000601:surgery*; D005147:Facial Bones / Q000033:anatomy & histology; D006801:Humans; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted / Q000379:methods; D008838:Microcomputers; D010347:Patient Care Planning; D010781:Photography; D012985:Software Design; D013813:Therapy, Computer-Assisted; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014584:User-Computer Interface