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Accurate tooth segmentation with improved hybrid active contour model.
Physics in Medicine and Biology 2018 November 28
In orthodontic diagnosis and oral treatment planning, 3D tooth model constructed by dental computed tomography (CT) images is an essential and useful assisted tool. In virtue of the higher spatial resolution and lower radiation of X-ray, cone beam computed tomography (CBCT) has been widely used in dental application. However, due to lower signal to noise ratio, vague and weak edge between tooth root and sockets as well as intensity inhomogeneity, the tooth root is easy to be under- segmented and appears false boundary. This paper presents a new hybrid active contour model in a variational level set formulation to segment the tooth root accurately. Initial shape and intensity information from the upper layer is used for next layer's enhancement and shape constraint. The hybrid level set model is constituted by multi-scale local likelihood image fitting (LLIF) energy term, prior shape constraint energy term with adaptive weight and reaction-diffusion (RD) regularization energy term. For detailed interpretation of this hybrid energy model, the intensity information in a narrowband region outside the contour was used to enhance the contrast between tooth dentine and sockets. The LLIF energy term was incorporated into the level set function to overcome the edge fuzziness and intensity inhomogeneity. The shape prior energy term with adaptive weight was used to differentiate the constraint of the contour evolution inside and outside the level set function to improve the capability of curve topology changes. The RD energy term was introduced to effectively regularize the level set evolution. A new measurement for tooth segmentation evaluation was proposed for quantitative validation. The experimental result of the proposed method was compared with two other typical approaches, and was demonstrated to achieve a higher segmentation accuracy.
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