Conference paper
Building and Testing a Statistical Shape Model of the Human Ear Canal
In
Medical Image Computing and Computer-assisted Intervention - Miccai 2002, 5th Int. Conference, Tokyo, Japan
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2002, pp. 373-380
Abstract
Today the design of custom in-the-ear hearing aids is based on personal experience and skills and not on a systematic description of the variation of the shape of the ear canal. In this paper it is described how a dense surface point distribution model of the human ear canal is built based on a training set of laser scanned ear impressions and a sparse set of anatomical landmarks placed by an expert.
The landmarks are used to warp a template mesh onto all shapes in the training set. Using the vertices from the warped meshes, a 3D point distribution model is made. The model is used for testing for gender related differences in size and shape of the ear canal.
| Language: | English |
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| Publisher: | Springer |
| Year: | 2002 |
| Pages: | 373-380 |
| Proceedings: | 5th Internatinal Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention |
| ISBN: | 3540442251 , 3540457879 , 9783540442257 and 9783540457879 |
| Types: | Conference paper |
| DOI: | 10.1007/3-540-45787-9_47 |
| ORCIDs: | Paulsen, Rasmus Reinhold , Larsen, Rasmus and Ersbøll, Bjarne Kjær |
