Visualisation and reconstruction in dentistry

Author

Shimabukuro, M.H. ; Minghim, Rosane

Author_Institution

UNESP, Sao Paulo

fYear

1998

fDate

29-31 Jul 1998

Firstpage

25

Lastpage

31

Abstract

Visualisation in the field of dentistry has not, thus far, reached the same development as other medical fields. Potential applications of visualisation techniques in this area, however, are many, ranging from educational displays to training for delicate procedures. This paper reports on the investigation of techniques for handling 3D models of teeth, aiming at the investigation of dental structures. An algorithm was implemented for this purpose, which reconstructs 3D teeth models from 2D contour slices. Results employing various data sets are presented, including the output of VRML models for exploration

Keywords

biomedical education; computer based training; data visualisation; image reconstruction; medical computing; medical image processing; patient treatment; virtual reality; 2D contour slices; 3D teeth model reconstruction; VRML models; data sets; delicate procedures; dental structures; dentistry; educational displays; exploration; training; visualisation techniques; Application software; Computer applications; Data visualization; Dentistry; Medical diagnostic imaging; Mouth; Read only memory; Software packages; Teeth; Virtual reality;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Visualization, 1998. Proceedings. 1998 IEEE Conference on

Conference_Location

London

ISSN

1093-9547

Print_ISBN

0-8186-8509-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IV.1998.694195

Filename

694195