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Whole Body Pregnant Woman Modeling By Digital Geometry Processing With Detailed Utero-Fetal Unit Based On Medical Images
Lazar Bibin, Jeremy Anquez, Juan Pablo de la Plata Alcalde, Tamy Boubekeur, Elsa D. Angelini and Isabelle Bloch
IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering
Abstract
Anatomical models of pregnant women are used in
several applications such as numerical dosimetry to assess the
potential effects of electromagnetic fields on biological tissues,
or medical simulation. Recent advances in medical imaging
have enabled the generation of realistic and detailed models
of human beings. The construction of pregnant woman models
remains a complex task since it is not possible to acquire
whole body images. Only few models have been developed up
to now, and they all present some limitations regarding the
representation of anatomical variability of the fetus shape and
position over the entire gestation. This paper describes a complete
pipeline that intends to automate each step of the construction
of pregnant women models. The proposed approach relies on
the segmentation of 3D ultrasonic and 3D magnetic resonance
imaging data, and on dedicated computer graphics tools. The
lack of complete anatomical information for the mother in
image data is compensated, in an original way, by merging the
available information with a synthetic woman model, deformed to
match the image-based information. A set of models anatomically
validated by clinical experts is presented. They include detailed
information on utero-fetal units and cover different gestational
stages with various fetal positions.
Paper soon available.
BibTex Reference:
@article{Bibin:2010:WBP,
author = {Lazar Bibin and Jeremy Anquez and Juan Pablo de la Plata Alcalde and Tamy Boubekeur and Elsa D. Angelini and Isabelle Bloch.},
title = {Whole Body Pregnant Woman Modeling By Digital Geometry Processing With Detailed Utero-Fetal Unit Based On Medical Images},
journal = {IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering},
year = {2010},
}
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