Computer Vision-Guided Virtual Craniofacial Surgery: A Graph-Theoretic and Statistical Perspective

by Ananda S. Chowdhury, Suchendra M. Bhandarkar

Overview

This unique text/reference discusses in depth the two integral components of reconstructive surgery; fracture detection, and reconstruction from broken bone fragments. In addition to supporting its application-oriented viewpoint with detailed coverage of theoretical issues, the work incorporates useful algorithms and relevant concepts from both graph theory and statistics. Topics and features: presents practical solutions for virtual craniofacial reconstruction and computer-aided fracture detection; discusses issues of image registration, object reconstruction, combinatorial pattern matching, and detection of salient points and regions in an image; investigates the concepts of maximum-weight graph matching, maximum-cardinality minimum-weight matching for a bipartite graph, determination of minimum cut in a flow network, and construction of automorphs of a cycle graph; examines the techniques of Markov random fields, hierarchical Bayesian restoration, Gibbs sampling, and Bayesian inference.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780857292957
Publisher:	Springer London
Publication date:	04/06/2011
Series:	Advances in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Edition description:	2011
Pages:	166
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.30(h) x 0.70(d)

Table of Contents

Part I: Overview and Foundations.- Introduction.- Graph-Theoretic Foundations.- A Statistical Primer.- Part II: Virtual Craniofacial Reconstruction.- Virtual Single-fracture Mandibular Reconstruction.- Virtual Multiple-fracture Mandibular Reconstruction.- Part III Computer-aided Fracture Detection.- Fracture Detection using Bayesian Inference.- Fracture Detection in an MRF-based Hierarchical Bayesian Framework.- Fracture Detection using Max-Flow Min-Cut.- Part IV: Concluding Remarks.- GUI Design and Research Synopsis.

Editorial Reviews

From the reviews:

“The goal of the research is to apply image processing techniques for the construction of a virtual human jaw. … The monograph presents the underlying computational mathematics and algorithms and the results of the corresponding experiments. … Readers with a normal understanding of the human anatomy can understand the book. … It can be used as a textbook in graduate or higher-level image processing courses.” (Maulik A. Dave, ACM Computing Reviews, April, 2012)

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