title: An image analysis approach for automatically re-orienteering CT images for dental implants.
abstract: In the last decade, computerized tomography (CT) has become the most frequently used imaging modality to obtain a correct pre-operative implant planning. In this work, we present an image analysis and computer vision approach able to identify, from the reconstructed 3D data set, the optimal cutting plane specific to each implant to be planned, in order to obtain the best view of the implant site and to have correct measures. If the patient requires more implants, different cutting planes are automatically identified, and the axial and cross-sectional images can be re-oriented accordingly to each of them. In the paper, we describe the defined algorithms in order to recognize 3D markers (each one aligned with a missed tooth for which an implant has to be planned) in the 3D reconstructed space, and the results in processing real exams, in terms of effectiveness and precision and reproducibility of the measure.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Via Vignolese 905, 41100 Modena, Italy. rita.cucchiara@unimo.it
authors.forename: Rita
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Cucchiara
authors.forename: Evelina
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Lamma
authors.forename: Tommaso
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Sansoni
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D015921:Dental Implants; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; D007558:Italy; D011300:Preoperative Care; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D025321:Surgery, Computer-Assisted; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000379:methods*
chemical_list: D015921:Dental Implants