A surface registration technique for estimation of 3-D kinematics of joints.
This study proposes a new technique for registration of complicated freeform surfaces. The relationship between the initial and transferred location/orientation of a points cloud is formulated and then generalized within the framework of the influence surface modeling approach using least squares method. Results of case studies for estimation of the transformation matrix of articular surface of the knee joint in two scenes of MR images indicated high accuracies of +/-1 mm and +/-1 degree.
School of Mechanical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran.
Kamal
K
Mostafavi
Ali
A
Jafari
Farzam
F
Farahmand
D000465:Algorithms; D001696:Biomechanical Phenomena; D003198:Computer Simulation; D006801:Humans; D021621:Imaging, Three-Dimensional; D007596:Joints / Q000033:anatomy & histology*