title: Markerless three-dimensional tracking of masticatory movement.
abstract: Conventional methods for measuring mandibular movement are expensive and require headgear and a marker attached to the mandibular incisors. These make assessment of normal chewing difficult. The aim of the present study was to test the validity of a markerless three-dimensional system for tracking masticatory movement by comparing it with a conventional method using an incisal marker. The study investigated 100 chewing cycles in 10 participants. The jaw tracking system consisted of a camera capable of recording depth and red, green, and blue data simultaneously, a laptop computer, and data analysis software. Depth data for each participant's face, tracked in real time, produced a computed 3D mask. The most prominent point of the soft tissue under the lip was defined as the chin point. A dental clasp cemented to the labial surface of the mandibular incisors was defined as the incisal point. The movement of these two measuring points was simultaneously recorded during mastication of chewing gum for 20s. To conduct the same analysis on each cycle from the two measuring points, all cycles were normalized by dividing by the corresponding vertical displacement because of their size variation. The findings showed excellent intramethod correlation for normalized horizontal displacement at every level (>0.9; except for 2 out of 19 levels; 0.896 and 0.898), and a lack of proportional bias. These findings suggest a correlation between the chewing cycles from two measuring points, the incisor and the chin, further suggesting the feasibility of a markerless system for tracking masticatory movement.
authors.affiliation: Department of Prosthodontics, Gerodontology and Oral Rehabilitation, Osaka University Graduate School of Dentistry, 1-8 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan. Electronic address: yutotanaka.0106@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Yuto
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Tanaka
authors.affiliation: Department of Prosthodontics, Gerodontology and Oral Rehabilitation, Osaka University Graduate School of Dentistry, 1-8 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan.
authors.forename: Takafumi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Yamada
authors.affiliation: Department of Prosthodontics, Gerodontology and Oral Rehabilitation, Osaka University Graduate School of Dentistry, 1-8 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan.
authors.forename: Yoshinobu
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Maeda
authors.affiliation: Department of Prosthodontics, Gerodontology and Oral Rehabilitation, Osaka University Graduate School of Dentistry, 1-8 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan.
authors.forename: Kazunori
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ikebe
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002638:Chewing Gum; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted / Q000379:methods; D007180:Incisor; D008297:Male; D008334:Mandible / Q000502:physiology*; D008409:Mastication / Q000502:physiology*; D008838:Microcomputers; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D009068:Movement; D012984:Software; D014741:Video Recording
chemical_list: D002638:Chewing Gum
keywords: Jaw tracking; Mandibular jaw movement; Markerless motion capture; Mastication