Semi-automatic teeth segmentation in cone-beam computed tomography by graph-cut with statistical shape prior
Résumé
We propose a new semi-automatic framework for tooth segmentation
in Cone-Beam Computed Tomography (CBCT) combining shape
priors based on a statistical shape model and graph cut optimization. Poor image quality and similarity between tooth and cortical
bone intensities are overcome by strong constraints on the shape and
on the targeted area. The segmentation quality was assessed on 64
tooth images for which a reference segmentation was available, with
an overall Dice coefficient above 0.95 and a global consistency error
less than 0.005.