Building a Complete Surface Model from Sparse Data Using Statistical Shape Models: Application to Computer Assisted Knee Surgery System

This paper addresses the problem of extrapolating very few range data to obtain a complete surface representation of an antomical structure. A new method that uses statistical shape models is proposed and its application to modeling a few points manually digitized on the femoral surface is detailed, in order to improve visualization of a system developped by TIMC laboratory for computer assisted anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction. The model is built from a population of 11 femur specimen digitized manually. Data sets are registered together using an elastic registration method of Szeliski and Lavallee based on octree-splines. Principal Components Analysis (PCA) is performed on a field of surface deformation vectors. Fitting this statistical model to a few points is performed by non-linear optimisation. Results are presented for both simulated and real data. The method is very flexible and can be applied to any structures for which the shape is stable.

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