title: [Applications of computer image processing and graph processing technologies in digital modelling of 3-D shapes of teeth, jaw and prosthesis].
abstract: In this paper, the images of sliced sections or CT sections of the specimen of teeth, jaw and prosthesis were processed by a computer image analysing system, and the plane shape of the 3-D objects of interest on the sections was converted into digital images using a special software module for contour analysing. Then the images were adjusted in scale, modified in coordinates and smoothed in shape, and the data format was transferred for finite-element analysis by a specially designed software. In such ways a method for the digital modelling of the 3-D shape of teeth, jaw and prosthesis was successfully established.
authors.affiliation: Scientific and Technical Center of Dental Implantology of China.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Yu
authors.forename: Z
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Zhu
mesh_terms: D003198:Computer Simulation; D017266:Dental Prosthesis; D020342:Finite Element Analysis; D006801:Humans; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; D007568:Jaw; D014070:Tooth