title: Anatomy-based 3D skeleton extraction from femur model.
abstract: Using 3D models of bones can highly improve accuracy and reliability of orthopaedic evaluation. However, it may impose excessive computational load. This article proposes a fully automatic method for extracting a compact model of the femur from its 3D model. The proposed method works by extracting a 3D skeleton based on the clinical parameters of the femur. Therefore, in addition to summarizing a 3D model of the bone, the extracted skeleton would preserve important clinical and anatomical information. The proposed method has been applied on 3D models of 10 femurs and the results have been evaluated for different resolutions of data.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biomedical Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology , Tehran , Iran and.
authors.forename: Mina
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gharenazifam
authors.forename: Ehsan
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Arbabi
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D005269:Femur; D006801:Humans; D021621:Imaging, Three-Dimensional; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008953:Models, Anatomic
keywords: 3D mesh; 3D skeleton; clinical parameters; compact model; femur model