Three-dimensional computer-assisted craniometrics: A comparison of the uncertainty in measurement induced by surface reconstruction performed by two computer programs

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• 作者：Pierre Guyomarc&rsquo ; h^a ; ^{pierreguyo@gmail.com} ; Fré ; dé ; ric Santos^a ; Bruno Dutailly^a ; ^b ; Pascal Desbarats^c ; Christophe Bou^d ; Hé ; lè ; ne Coqueugniot^a
• 关键词：Anthropometry ; TIVMI ; AMIRA ; HMH 3D ; Marching Cube ; Error analysis
• 刊名：Forensic Science International
• 出版年：2012
• 期刊代码：104_03790738
• 类别：med
• 出版时间：10 June, 2012
• 卷：219
• 期：1-3
• 页码：221-227
• 文件大小：729 K

摘要

Digital investigation of anthropological material through computed tomography (CT) offers several new opportunities in morphometrics. However, an object measured with computer-assisted methods does not necessarily exactly match the original one. The scanning and surface reconstruction of the object induce some alterations, and data acquisition is prone to measurement uncertainty. The purpose of this research is to evaluate the intra- and inter-observers variations in medical CT scan measurements of a known-size phantom and two dry crania. Two software packages, AMIRA and Treatment and Increased Vision for Medical Imaging (TIVMI), which use different techniques of surface reconstructions, were compared. The mean difference between the measurements was lower for TIVMI, using an objective algorithm based on the half-maximum height (HMH) protocol in three dimensions (3D). AMIRA can induce up to a 4%error in known measurements and 5%uncertainty in dry skull measurements. This study emphasises the risk of object shape alteration in each step of its digitisation.