Individual tooth segmentation from CT images scanned with contacts of maxillary and mandible teeth

This study proposes a novel method to segment individual tooth from dental CT images scanned with contacts of maxillary and mandible teeth.• The Radon transform is applied to extract a line to separate neighboring teeth into independent ones.• A parameter adaptive selection scheme is develop edto determine the parameters of hybrid level set model adaptively accordingtothe image data.• Contacted maxillary and mandible teeth are separated from reconstructed mesh model using threshold segmentation and fast marching watershed method.

Source: Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine - October 13, 2016 Category: Bioinformatics Authors: Zeyang Xia, Yangzhou Gan, Lichao Chang, Jing Xiong, Qunfei Zhao Source Type: research